Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her
curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie
and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida,
where Lizzie's thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some
unlikely friends and gets her into some sticky situations. Resilient and
precocious, Lizzie has a passion for learning new words (especially
those with Latin roots) and a propensity for finding trouble, which is
how she ends up stumbling upon criminal activities involving seedy
characters, beautiful golden monkeys, and murder.