Cady is a happy, normal 16-year-old girl except for the fact that both her parents are research zoologists and she has spent the last 12 years being home-schooled in Africa. But then her Mom got offered tenure at Northwestern University so it was goodbye Africa, hello high school. Now you must help guide her through the grueling social establishment known as high school where she will quickly learn that it can be just as wild and vicious as the plains of the Serengeti.