Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace and boy does the necklace have a story to tell, she goes jeans shopping with her mother an accomplishment in diplomacy, she learns to drive shift in a truck illegally, she saves a life directly connected to being able to drive, thus proving something, she takes a bus ride to another town in order to understand what it feels like to be from elsewhere, she meets a boy who truly is from elsewhere, but mostly she hangs out with her friends Patty, Hector, Lenny, and Phil. Their paths cross. Their stories crisscross. And in Lynne Rae Perkinss remarkable book, a girl and her wish grow up. Illustrated throughout with blackandwhite pictures, comics, and photographs by the author.
