When Lily and her sixth-grade friends turn to self-esteem books, they find the results cause more problems until they discover where to seek true self-image.
Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself questioning her faith when her newly adopted sister, Tessa, disrupts their home and intrudes on Lily's new-found love of horses, then has a serious accident just when she and Lily are beginning to get along.
Learning to sail almost makes up for being separated from the other Girlz at Camp Galilee in Maine, but twelve-year-old Lily is homesick, feels like an outsider in her cabin, and makes a choice that causes Suzy to declare she'll never speak to Lily again.