This book is mainly about a young girl who can't read and both of her parents left her to be in a foster home. She couldn't read her parents couldn't afford to send her to school. Because where she used to live you had to pay to go to school. She always got made fun of because all of the other girls knew how to read and she didn't. The boys didn't really bother her. But there was one little boy that was really nice to her as they got older they grew to love each other but he ended up getting adopted so they had to separate. She never spoke about him again because if she did she would get in trouble. In the house you can't date another foster kid because it breaks the rules. So she lived being teased then she met the new kid.