"This year the Fall Festival at the high school will be the best ever. Abby wants to go with her friends--not her parents and little brother. But first she has to prove how mature she has become...".

Abby's best friend Jessica is gone for several months, and nothing goes right.

Abby's plan for a carefree summer before starting the sixth grade is interrupted by the arrival of a friend of her mother's and her five-year-old daughter.