Time period is set in the Fall of 1960. In a suburb in the Midwest, there is a fourteen year old boy named Wilbur and a 13 year old girl named Beth. Both kids are starting 8th grade. Wilbur standing at 5'6, has a stocky build and weighs in around 200 lbs. He has short greasy auburn hair. He wears preaty much the same clothes, jeans, striped grey shirt, a baseball cap, and dirty white socks with holes in his tennis shoes. Beth is a girl that is 5'3 in height. She has curly brownish black hair. She wears skirts to school and all the time. She is a down to earth girl, who also has a chubby build on her. Both kids are neighbors. They don't get good grades, they hate school, and their not very athletic, considering their parents are very strict with their dieting, but in their best efforts, the parents only make the kids more rebellious about their eating habits. Beth and Wilbur are made fun of and called all kinds of names by the kids in school making them both best friends. Beth got rejected by the cheerleading team because of her weight and Wilbur was not allowed on the football team because he did not get along with the coach, so the two found that having each other's company was just as good enough. On top of that both had sloppy rooms and bad hygene habits. Both kids got grounded because of their lifestyle. What were the kids going to do?