'"Why did he have to die?" I asked mum while we ate. "I miss him so much."
'Karen is still trying to come to terms with the death of her father. She loves her mum a lot, but then her mother becomes a teacher at her school.
'"What if my classmates laugh at her? What if they laugh at me!?"
'Then along comes Brendan, the cutest guy in the school and everything changes.
'The 'Fernwood Secondary College' series is written by secondary college students. Bronwyn Gregory had just turned seventeen when she wrote this story.' (Publication summary)