Story Plot

Jesse "Jess" Aarons is an 11-year-old aspiring artist living with her financially struggling family in Lark Creek. She rides the bus to school with her younger sister, May Belle, where she avoids the school bully, Janice Avery. In class, Jess is bullied by classmates Scott Hoager and Gary Fulcher and meets a new student named Leslie Burke. At recess, Jess enters a running event, for which she has been training at home. Leslie also enters and manages to win, much to Jess' irritation. On the way home, Jess and Leslie learn they are next-door neighbor

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