Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd.
Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property.
Thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis and her friends rally together to try and get the school board to reinstate their English teacher who was fired for her refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Presents three stories in which nine-year-old Amber Brown copes with her parents divorce, joint custody, the pain of lack of self-esteem, and her mother's plans to remarry.