Her anxiety increases when her friends discover Internet profiles of all her previous identities and wonder who she really is. It appears her only option is to return home to live with her mother and stepfather so she can finish high school. When Luna Blu seems destined to close, and Dad to be relocated again, Mclean is, for once, not ready to leave the life she’s built. Mclean and Dave grow close and talk about dating. Mclean is angry that her mother refuses to take any responsibility or apologize for breaking up the family. She threatens to involve her lawyer unless Mclean will see her more. She tries to make Mclean feel guilty for not visiting or communicating enough. Meanwhile, Mclean’s mother calls her constantly. When Opal, the Luna Blu manager, agrees to construct a model of the city in exchange for added parking spaces for the restaurant, Mclean and her friends take over the project, which becomes a bonding experience and a metaphor for fitting the pieces of their own lives together. She also befriends a sweet but quirky girl named Deb. Mclean becomes friends with Dave’s buddies - Ellis, Riley and Heather. Dave is a genius with protective, health-nut parents, who disapprove of his decision to go to a public high school. She meets her neighbor Dave when he saves her from getting caught with alcohol during a police raid at a party. Mainly by accident, Mclean allows new acquaintances to know her by her real name and personality. Her theory works until she and Dad move to Lakeview, where Dad tries to save a dying restaurant called Luna Blu. As long as she can pretend to be someone else, Mclean is convinced she’ll never get too attached, and it won’t hurt to say goodbye. In each new place, she invents a unique identity for herself. She’s followed her dad, a restaurant consultant, from city to city.
As her relationships deepen, she realizes how people can be much more complex and surprising than they first seem.Ever since Mclean’s mom left her dad for the coach of Dad’s favorite college basketball team, 17-year-old Mclean has been on the move. The capable protagonist Mclean has problems but she realizes that connecting with other people - family and friends - makes her feel at home in the world. One boy is under close supervision by his parents after getting arrested for drinking at a party, and his friends contend his parents’ response is draconian. The teens have a very casual attitude toward drinking alcohol. The heroine’s parents divorced after her mother began an affair with a well-known basketball coach, resulting in a very public scandal. Parents need to know that this story is about a family torn apart by an affair. One boy, arrested when caught drinking beer, is pitied by his friends for his parents’ strict response.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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