sentences:  When the diary resumes, the year is 1956, Daisy is 15, and she has returned to Shell Beach from living in the Catholic boarding school.Her father still drinks - maybe even more - and her mother has died from cancer.Daisy Fay enters Magnolia Springs high school to find Kay Bob snobbier than ever, but now has a best friend, Pickle Watkins, to endure the trials of high school.