![]() ![]() Unfortunately Kirsten's aspirational mother is not thrilled about her mixing with the mavericks rather than the in-crowd. What place here for a bright African-American boy like Walk, who is on a scholarship and doesn't live in a mansion and holiday in Europe?Īs the talent contest approaches, the pressure to get good grades and extra credits mounts and dirty deeds lead to trouble, Kirsten and Walk are thrown together and an unlikely friendship begins to blossom. Despite the poster proclaiming "One World: Cultural Diversity at Mountain High", a kid's drawing of people of varied ethnicities holding hands around the earth, nearly all the other kids here are white, and his new friend Matteo is readily labelled "Burrito Boy". As the only son of Sylvia, a single mother and paediatric nurse who tries to hold him on a tight rein to keep him on track, he's finding the adjustment from the rough city school to this new private one more than a little uncomfortable. Walk isn't finding life especially easy either. ![]() Even worse, there is something very unnerving about the way Rory is gravitating towards the queen bee of the "popular" set, Brianna Hanna-Hines. Meanwhile Kirsten's best friend, Rory, seems to have stopped replying to her emails and isn't sitting next to her in class any more. An encounter with new boy Walk (short for Walker), who's prone to giggling embarrassment ("You have to be size three and named Barbie for my giggle"), leads to them both being tardy for their first lesson and a Saturday detention. Of course Kirsten's problems don't end at home. ![]()
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