Publisher's Synopsis
"Without conventional parental figures in each of their lives, four children face the many hardships of living in a small desert town. A chubby red-headed boy, Neil, doesn't have any friends and his family is even worse. His love interest Sally, is engaged in a lifestyle that features sex and drugs. The popular kid, Kyle, makes decisions that don't really help Neil's cause in an effort to gain popularity. And the biggest bully of them all, Nathan, has spent his whole life tormenting Neil and everyone else in the small town"--