Three friends in search of a place to belong find that home is truly where the heart is in this new tale of enchantment from best-selling master storyteller Alice Hoffman. 13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plys Martha's lonely father with food and opinions about how 13 year-old girls should behave. Martha longs to leave Oak Grove and travel. Martha's best friend Trevor and his brother Eli also want to leave Oak Grove. Nicknamed Trout and Eel because of the thin webbing between their fingers and toes, they long to see the ocean. Together, Martha, Trout, and Eel are going to find the true meaning of home -- in very unexpected places. Alice Hoffman is the highly acclaimed author of over thirty novels for readers of all ages, including The Dovekeepers , The World That We Knew -- winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Marriage of Opposites , Practical Magic , Incantation , The Foretelling , and most recently, The Invisible Hour . Her previous novels for Scholastic Press are Aquamarine , which was made into a major motion picture, Indigo , Green Witch , and Green Angel , which Publishers Weekly , in a starred review, called "achingly lovely." She lives outside of Boston. Indigo Alice Hoffman