Mary, Patrick, Winter, and Dez are determined to win the unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt, but throughout the afternoon and evening Mary encounters the demons she and her friends have faced as high school "also-rans," and ponders what her college and future will bring.
Betsy is sure that her summer job at a colonial reenactment village is going to squash her chances of ever being popular, but when he mother dies she finds the job, as well as unlikely friend Liza, and seductive surfer James, key to her survival.
Jane, her twin brother Marcus, and their father have been on the road since her mother's departure years ago, but when they inherit a house on Coney Island, Jane not only begins to find a home, she learns much about her mother, too.
