With their mom lengthy lifeless and their father unknown, eleven-year-old Penny Porter and her dual brother Parker were bouncing round foster houses for so long as they could be mindful. encouraged through the ancient figures in her favourite publication, Penny loves to think who she can be concerning. Sacagawea? Her genes will be strong ones to have. or even Ghandi, or Harriet Tubman. There are never-ending possibilities!

But whereas Penny embraces the query marks in her genealogy, she and Porter are either prepared for a true domestic. residing with their getting older, ornery Grauntie isn’t effortless, yet it’s higher than different locations they’ve been, they usually don’t are looking to get moved again—or worse, break up up. Penny believes the main to conserving them from being bounced to a different new house is getting their city of recent desire, North Carolina again at the nation map. And what higher method to do this than to spruce up and promote New Hope’s Finest—an previous orphanage that used to be presupposed to reopen years in the past because the top appeal ever, yet by no means did.

She’s acquired the creativity and the gumption to do it. and perhaps realizing who you're doesn’t topic loads as realizing what you are able to do. yet will that be adequate to ultimately retain her and Parker in a single position for good?