Tony and Tonya find their friend from New York, Read Preston is coming to California to live after her mom is put into jail for consecutive drug posession. At school, Read manages to act like the bad alley cat, while Tony and Tonya try to stop her. After Read sets them straight on acting like uptown classes, the brother and sister realise how much they've changed and are undecided on whether they'd rather be loyal to the home in the Bronx and be some backstreet kids from the wrong side of town or the polite, reasonable kids who would have fun