Summary

Izzy knows being the new kid at Lakeshore High School her senior year will not be easy based on her past foster care in which she has been placed into many different school systems. She drops an armload of papers in a busy hallway her first day at school, but only Ethan Black stops to help her. Shannon Mackenzie, Ethan's girlfriend, takes an immediate dislike to Izzy.

Izzy reflects on her bad history with foster care parents. They included an alcoholic foster parent, as well as negligent, absentee, and even suicidal foster parents. And always with a sudden, new school as punctuation mark to each new foster care sentence. She is very glad Peg and Harry, her latest parents, take such good care of her.

In Mr. Hudson's class, Izzy is pelted by a condom. She keeps her cool and turns the prank...