As China Barston grows up in New Berry, Illinois, during the 1980s, she never wants for anything, although she is one of six children being raised by a single mother. Her mother does her best to keep the neighborhood's bad influences away from China, but her efforts go unheeded when the inklings of first love knock at China's adolescent door in the form of Darren Rogers, also known as Crawl. After China meets a new best friend, Macon, she also tries...