After spending six months apart best friends Julie & Lydia are reunited at last! Julie has said good-bye to the mean girls & Lydia is ready to apply her hard-earned friendship lessons to founding their own crew. But bad news interrupts their reunion: their friend Sukie's mother ill for many years has passed away. This shakes Lydia & Julie who re-evaluate their goals & decide to focus more on being supportive of the friends they have. Unfortunately their well-meaning schemes almost immediately start to go awry & everyone seems to be mad at them for reasons beyond their control. How can they be better friends when no one seems to want to give them the chance? As always Julie & Lydia's hilarious back-&-forth notes form the backbone of the novel which Amy Ignatow uses to reveal all-too-real truths about friendship & loyalty.