Junior-high-age Victoria learns to deal with a young brother's learning disability, wins a writing contest, and remembers that God loves people just the way they are.
As Vic enters eighth grade, she has a number of things to think about: her grandmother's wedding, her friend Chel's feelings about becoming a Christian, and the mysteries of falling in love.
Besides the embarrassment of her pregnant mother's coming to school and her grandmother's working on a school production, Victoria must deal with her own mixed desires of being a star or remaining safely backstage.