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Chelsea and her friends at Harriet Tubman High School avoid and ridicule the strange Shadrach, a homeless man with a deformed face, but her attitude towards Shadrach begins to change when she helps him rescue wounded opposums.

Ernesto and the other students at Chavez High are looking forward to graduation and starting out in the real world, but many of them, including Ernesto, fear they will wind up stuck in dead-end jobs, trapped in their poor city with no hope for a better life.

Josie is concerned when she discovers that her cousin Katrina, a good rider, does not take proper care of her horse, and she calls upon Faith, an elderly mare, to restore Katrina's confidence when her carelessness causes her to take a bad fall.

Kevin begins helping Lydell Nelson, an overweight loner, come out of his shell by bringing him to the gym to get physical exercise and encouraging him to share his creative writing with others.