In this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure, twelve-year-old Dagmar
must endure a summer living off-the-grid with her family in a tiny
home.
The last thing Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished
into a tiny house with her dad, her stepmom, and her annoying
five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback, her
family is evicted from their Oakland apartment, and that's just where
they end up, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California.
As Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary
home, she discovers they are living next door to an eccentric tech
billionaire and his very unusual extended family. There's his brother, a
woodsman who sets dangerous booby traps all over the place, and his
sister, a New Age animal lover who meditates to whale songs in an
isolation tank. And then there's the billionaire's son, Blake, who has
everything he could ever wish for--except maybe a friend.
But when a wildfire engulfs the forest, everyone--rich and poor, kid and
adult--will have to work together to escape. And with both families at
risk of losing everything, it turns out it's not the size of the home
but the people you share it with that matters.