A young teenage girl faces the challenges of a dysfunctional family, peer pressures, and finding herself. Her hopes and dreams are molded by the events taking place around her. Share in her first date, first kiss, and first cigarette. Experience the Seattle World's Fair, the Kennedy assassination, the Columbus Day Storm, and other events that shaped the author's life. Get a true glimpse of life during the early 1960s on Bainbridge Island in the state of Washington and recall your own years in junior high school.