Torrey: I get to meet lots of different adult groups and also student groups who know the book. One of the things that I ask is, “How many of you have been peer-pressured? How many of you have done a dare? How many of you have been in a situation that you know is tight and not right, but you stayed in that situation?” Ninety percent of the honest adults raise their hands. A hundred percent of the kids raise their hands. Peer pressure is this perennial issue that we all go through. The teacher in me wanted to write a book that gave kids a model of, “If I'm ever in this tight situation, here are some other options.”