by Jennifer C. Weil (Author)

On a rural, isolated road, eleven-year-old Tommy Hillman and his younger sister, Erica, face a long sure-to-be-dull summer, made dreadful by their father's serious illness. Their lives shaken, they turn for company to their one neighbor, whose surprising friendship takes them places they never dreamt of going and teaches them the rewards of asking the simplest question: Why?