Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother''s lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school''s ironclad no weapons policy. While there, Sierra spends time with Luke, a boy who''s known as a troublemaker, and discovers that he''s not the person she assumed he would be--and that the lines between good and bad aren''t as clear as she once thought. Claudia Mills brings another compelling school story to life with Zero Tolerance.
