From a rotten teacher to traitorous friends and battling parents, Jackie feels like she is carrying the world on her eleven-year-old shoulders. After the last day of an awful school year, she can't wait to get away with her cousin, Tommy, and their grandparents for a Memorial Day weekend at a riverside resort. She looks forward to music, swimming, playing until she can't stand up, and sleeping under the stars. Yet, this is not what life has in store. After a narrow escape from a gang of bullies, Jackie and her cousin find themselves on a wild, unintended boat ride down the Brazos and end up...