Daniel Aarons is a normal kid. He likes to read and swim and get dirty just like any other seven-year-old. He loves his life and is, well, happy. Until, of course, he's uprooted from his childhood home and forced to move 3,000 miles away to a new house with a new backyard and new neighbors with a daughter who has a toothy grin and the brightest blue eyes Danny has ever seen. Emeline Broker is weird and loud and funny and pretty and they are inseparable. How will the Bonnie-and-Clyde-Esque partners in crime cope with growing up in the face of adversity and heartbreak?