Sharon Creech became the first author to simultaneously hold two of the most prestigious literary awards in the field of children's literature: the Newbery Medal (USA) and the Carnegie Medal (UK). Thirteen-year-old Salamanca, or simply Sal, moves with her dad to another state. And here everything is wrong: there is no creek for swimming, maples and meadows. Melancholy, and that’s all. But meeting Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl with a very rich imagination, makes Salamanca change his mind! Phoebe's mother disappeared, it's as if her own... psycho suddenly appeared and in general everything goes awry! Sal is ready to help her new friend find her mother, because she knows exactly how bitter it is: getting used to the fact that her mother will never return.