Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.

"According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place|and she's just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head|and her home state|and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.Zander does not fit in|or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There's her cabin mate Cassie, a self-described...