I flew through this novel of self-discovery. June has moved in the middle of the year to Virginia (from North Carolina, and she's freezing throughout the winter months lol) after having been expelled from her former school for being caught drunk with her best friend. The best friend, Jess, gets to stay because her parents make a large contribution to the school. So June is in a new town with her grandmother, a day student at a boarding school. 

She misses Jess intensely, but a lucky physics group assignment joins her with Claire and Kitty, who are dating, but are super welcoming. June isn't always the third wheel because she meets Sam, Claire's cousin in photography class. She'd never been interested in anything artistic before, but the elective fit in her schedule, and she found herself elbow deep in developer! 

Developing prints is an apt metaphor for how June learns things about herself and who she is when she's not with Jess.