Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that&apos;s made school a lonely experience for her. It&apos;s made LIFE a lonely experience.<br /><br />But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she&apos;d love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow&apos;s world unravels and she&apos;s found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt.<br /><br />With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it&apos;s here that she discovers an outlet in rock & roll music...