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Seventh grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother's lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school's ironclad zero tolerance policy: no drugs, no weapons, no exceptions. Sierra spends her days in suspension with the so-called troublemakers, especially her classmate Luke, and discovers that their stories are more complicated than she thought. Suddenly none of the lines between right and wrong are as clear as she thought they once were. Everyone makes damaging mistakes - even, it turns out, Sierra herself.
