Excluded from her friends' new club, the Pain Sisters, because she has never broken a bone or been to the hospital, Libby comes up with a plan to join.
Life on Libby's boring street gets more exciting when a new girl and her big, friendly dog move in and help Libby become the president of their newly formed club.
When other family members infringe on what she had hoped would be a special day with her father, a young girl imagines herself alone with fish that take on familiar appearances.
When thirteen-year-old Carmie discovers that her divorced mother, who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was once a well-know Malibu surfer, she re-evaluates the way she views her mother and herself.
