The Comeback Season — Jennifer E. Smith

The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading down to Wrigley Field. Instead, she should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing.

She is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: "Wait till next year." Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?