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High-school senior Linden Rose is trying to keep up with schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and scholarship-hunting while hiding a huge secret: she's become homeless and lives at her school. Linden's valiant efforts to avoid the stigma of homelessness and make a future for herself are heartwrenching and affecting, but her story suffers from predictable plot turns and a too-perfect conclusion.