Alex, sixteen, has just started in a boy 's school when he did not save a friend from drowning in the river on the campus. They fear the consequences if they reveal the truth, Alex and his friend Glen, who also witnessed the accident, decided not to lie. Guilty, Alex hid in the library, told him the story in the magazine that he had a copy of Dick. But the boys are not the only one in the river that day. In their panic. Miss dovecott, a young English teacher, arrived in Princeton from. Over the next several weeks, miss dovecott began to recognize Alex 's poetry; she helped him to find his voice, and GE was particularly excited by the teacher. But when it became apparent that miss dovecott had noticed that Alex 's writing was flashing, and