Tired of always being on the move, Dinnie is determined not to get attached to her newest environment (""I won't adjust! I won't adapt! I won't! I'll rebel!""), but surrounded by other ""foreigners""-students from all corners of the world-she finds it easier than she had imagined to make friends.
With her father on the road, her older brother Crick in jail and her 16-year-old sister, Stella, giving birth, it's little surprise that Dinnie is ""kidnapped"" by her aunt and uncle and taken from her ""little New Mexico hill town"" to the American School in Lugano, Switzerland, where the pair work. Domenica Santolina Doone (""It's a mouthful, so most people call me Dinnie""), whose father is always in search of ""the right opportunity,"" has already lived in 12 different cities.
A light first-person narrative and some insightful dream flashes (taken from the protagonist's journal) convey an uprooted 13-year-old's coming of age.
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