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At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin struggles with her feelings about her best friend's pregnancy, boys who tempt her to break her vow not to date, non-Christian friends, and what God may be calling her to do with her life.

A boy imagines all sorts of creatures he'd rather be friends with than the "pain" next door, but his grandmother tells him about the Golden Rule and he decides it's worth a try.

Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town.