Bruised and battered 12-year old Stephen Pressley is given one more shot at finding a home.
Twelve-year old Stephen Pressley knows pain. He knows loneliness. He knows disappointment. Having your entire family die when you're six will do that. And spending six years bouncing from one awful foster home to the next? That'll mess you up pretty good, too.
But what happens if you take a boy like Stephen – short, quiet, scarred, and pessimistic – and you suddenly drop him in a house in the country, with woods to explore, a creek to swim in, a goat farm, and a garden? What if there's a bunch of other kids there, too? Kids who form rock bands and build tree houses and obsess about sports. Kids who tell fart jokes and dress goats up for Halloween. Kids who fight and laugh and wrestle and cry and grow. What would happen if you threw a damaged twelve-year old boy into the middle of all that?
Stephen Pressley is about to find out.