Breaking Point
Paul Richmond, a Navy brat, moves from homeschooling to a fancy private school, Gate-Brickell Christian, after his lieutenant colonel father has an affair and divorces his teacher-mother. On his first day at Gate, he meets a girl named Binky and a boy named Charlie Good.
The kids at school look down on Paul because his mother works as a secretary at the school. Paul's father, busy with a new wife and baby, ignores his calls and finally tells him to go away. He feels responsible for being a surrogate man of the house for his mother This is far too much pressure for Paul, and only drives him away from confiding in his mother about anything happening in his life. People at school pick on him. Then, Paul meets Charlie.