What do you do when you're all alone, with no friends at all? Elizabeth is apprehensive about going back to Hill School. For a start, it has now become the Hill School for Holistic Learning. Her best friend has left school and she is all alone. And when school begins, everything is different. There are no exams or classes, they have to talk to trees and do weird things like dance yoga. For the class project, Elizabeth is teamed with with three girls - Mahrukh, whom she knows slightly and Ayesha and Maitreyi, two new girls whom she does not like. As if this weren't bad enough, Elizabeth manages to lose a historic journal ...
