"Good Girl Gone Plaid" is a coming-of-age story that follows the shenanigans of a young Catholic school girl, Riley Patton, who ensures that humor and wit drive her daily desire to do what is good. Unfortunately, Riley continues to find herself in constant trouble with the nuns who preside over the school and at home with a mother who favors her two other sisters, leaving Riley feeling abandoned and hurt.

Riley finds relief in tomboy adventures like poaching frogs and skinning fish with her best friends, and in writing in her "plaid/sad/mad/glad Father God and Mother Mary" journal....