Tessa’s dad decides that he and Tessa need to go on a road
trip. Both of them are still grieving
Tessa’s mother’s death. The road trip is
just supposed to be a few days, to the Grand Canyon, but turns into a a much
longer trip and finally ends in her father’s hometown, at Tessa’s grandmother’s
house. Tessa hasn’t seen her grandmother
Jenny since she was 2 years old, but her dad leaves her there without even
saying good-bye. Tessa is angry and
quickly becomes distraught over the health of the last pixiebell plant. The pixiebell is a plant that her mother’s
father stole from a colleague. Tessa’s
mother kept it healthy until she died and Tessa has done the same since. Now, maybe because of all of the traveling,
the pixiebell seems ill and Tessa has made it her mission to find out what’s
wrong and nurse it back to health, and perhaps to find out what happened that
she hasn’t seen her grandmother for so long, and possibly, to fall in love. A touching but realistic story about family
and love with a couple of surprise twists and an unusual but satisfying ending
that a lot of teens, probably mostly girls, would enjoy.
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