When James Frey, a typical timid kid, takes his first steps in middle school, he is astonished by other middle graders' weird actions, their lack of responsibility towards school work, their lack of adequate behaviour, their lack of intelligence--all what he has. Then, while on a vacation in San Francisco, he meets a gorgeous girl on the beach, a girl who he instantaneously develops affection for. After passing his first English test with a superb mark, his teacher develops a closer relationship with him, a kind of student-and-teacher relationship. Finally, when James determines that the girl he befriended is actually his teacher's daughter, he has to think swiftly of an idea on how to confess the situation to his teacher.