Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that--and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.

Nearly two decades ago, Hal Leonard created The Ultimate Fake Book, a collection of more than 1,200 songs which lived up to its name and set the standard for all fake books that followed.