With pictures by Caldecott Medal winner Matthew Cordell, best-selling author Sara Pennypacker of Pax brings us a hilarious and heartwarming new journey. Leeva Thornblossom enjoys learning new things, and she picks up a new term each day from her neighbourhood newspaper. Soap operas also teach her about the variety of human emotions. Leeva also sees a chance to accomplish something that newspapers and television alone can't offer: the ability to interact with people, when she reads the notification that all kids must attend school. Nevertheless, Leeva's parents, the selfish tax collector and the obnoxious mayor of their small town, do not want to send her to school and most definitely do not want her to interact with others. Hence, with assistance from the town's librarian and her son,? Leeva sets out to finds answers: what have her parents been hiding from her?