The story follows 17-year-old Josephine "Josie" Alibrandi, a teenager in her final year of high school living in Sydney, Australia. As a girl of Italian descent raised by a single mother and an overbearing grandmother, Josie often feels like an outsider, struggling to balance her heritage with the social pressures of her elite Catholic school.
Sixteen-year-old Francesca Spinelli is already having a rough time adjusting to her new life. She has just been transferred to St. Sebastian’s, a formerly all-boys school that has only recently started accepting girls. Out of hundreds of students, Francesca is one of only thirty girls, and she feels completely out of place, desperately missing her old friends and her comfortable old school. …