By the age of 12 Willow Chance has suffered more loss than most people experience in a lifetime.Now at her new school she is accused of cheating because no one has ever finished the state proficiency test in just 17 minutes, let alone received a perfect score. Her reward is behavioral counseling with an ineffectual counselor, but the bond she forms there with an unlikely cast of characters is heartfelt and transformative.Willow's story is one of renewal; her life is rebuilt and a unique family is created along the way.