Have you ever felt like you didn't belong? In Rising Sunlight, Monraisa, an eighth grader is taken out of her new school because of a Nonverbal Learning Disability and a Language Processing Disorder and placed in a new school for people with disabilities. There she learns to control her disabilities and finds an encouraging friend, Lenny. At the end of her school year, she hides in the school to escape her mom and eventually gets a ride from a crazy painter. When she gets back home she finds a motivated, adopted child and tutors her without permission while putting on an act against bullying. During her act a unknown figure appears and threatens her.