Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times but that was when she was just a kid.
By now she figures it's not running away ... it's leaving. Determined to make it on her own
Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog Buddy now buried
underneath the orange trees back home her friend Raymie whom she left without a word and her
mum Rhonda who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't want to depend on
anyone and she definitely doesn't want anyone to depend on her. But despite her best efforts
she can't help forming connections with the people around her - and gradually she learns to
see herself through their eyes. In a touching funny and fearless conclusion to her sequence of
novels about the beloved Three Rancheros No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Kate
DiCamillo tells the story of a character who will break your heart and put it back together
again.
