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Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.

Dealing with her grief over her mother's recent death and major problems her family and friends are facing cause Kim so much stress she even finds it hard to pray, but things improve when she really starts to "let go and let God.

Kim faces many changes her senior year in high school, including Nat's hasty wedding, childbirth, and ultimate decision about the baby, the first holidays without her mother, new problems for cousin Maya, and a significant surprise from her past.

In spite of a newfound faith, sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson faces a dreary Christmas and New Year because her mother has been diagnosed with cancer.