Summary

Emily Bean is sent to a boarding school by her parents with the hopes of giving her a fresh start in a new place. Even though she’s away from the rumors and memories of Grenfell County High School, Emily is still tormented by images of her boyfriend’s act of shooting himself. She’s wracked with guilt over the abortion she had to rid herself of his baby. With the help of poetry and some special friends, Emily is able to come to terms with her past and realize that it doesn’t have to define her.

In Chapter 1, the other girls at the Amherst School for Girls have already started spreading rumors about Emily Bean when she begins school there in the middle of the year. She doesn’t sound like or look like the others. Her new roommate tries to...