Life isn t neat and tidy. It s like a whole lot of balls of brightly colored wool thrown in a basket， with stray beginnings and endings and possibilities everywhere. Let s follow the blue.Fifteen-year-old Bec has always been the good girl. Growing up with an eccentric celebrity chef mother and a father who suffers from depression， Bec is used to taking care of her two younger siblings and being labeled "the sensible one." But when Bec s parents decide to take a six-week tour of the U.S.， she decides that she is sick of being responsible and is ready for some adventures of her own. She meets a new friend named Jaz， dyes her hair， wins money， throws her first party， and then there s the boy thing... In this intoxicating novel by award-winning author and poet Brigid Lowry， Bec realizes that maybe she isn t so ordinary after all and that sometimes it doesn t hurt to， as her mother would say， "lighten up and enjoy the ride."