Surprisingly, Millie and Emily become best friends instantly, and Millie even goes to Emily's for a sleepover. However, in a twist of fate, she meets Millicent Min, a home-schooled Chinese girl who was forced to play volleyball because there wasn't a gym at home. During these torture sessions, Emily must learn to hit the ball over the net, live with the awful Coach Gowin, and endure and reflect insults from popular girl, Julie and her "back-up singers." Just when her summer looked like it couldn't get any worse, Emily is signed up for volleyball by Alice. Emily only chose to live with Alice because if she lived with her father, she would get in his way- and the way of his band, Talky Boys, which is touring the East Coast. It was she who wanted to divorce, to tear the family apart, and to sell the house that Emily loved. The only reason she had to move was because her parents divorced, and it was all because of Alice, her boring journalist mother. The road from Allendale, New Jersey, to Rancho Rosetta, California, is not a smooth one for fun-loving Emily Ebers. Moving is not a pleasant experience- especially moving to the other side of the country with a moody mother who insists on stopping at every museum along the way.
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