Surviving the Applewhites

Sensible thirteen-year-old E.D. Applewhite is often frustrated by her artistic family. While everyone else writes, dances, or directs plays, E.D. keeps their home school, the "Creative Acad-emy," organized. When her family offers a place to Jake Semple-who has been expelled from the entire state of Rhode Island-E.D. grudgingly shares her self-designed curriculum with him. Jake tries to use his spiked hair and foul language to make his stay as short as possible.