|summary=Hugely disappointing with flat characters and none of the flair shown in Smith's wonderful [[Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith|Grasshopper Jungle]].
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Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school. His roommate is a bully, his closest male friends are idiots, and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesn't seem to see him in the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything for him.