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All her life, Ukrainian twelve year old Everly Lutsenko has lived in Seneca-a small town in Central Oregon where everyone knows everyone. She has friends, a house on a small farm, and almost everything she ever wanted-but then one fateful day she finds her older sister Lena almost dead from hypoglycemia. At the hospital they learn that Lena has Type 1 diabetes and everything-and everyone, it seems-changes.
They decide to sell their home in Seneca and buy a convenience store with a cramped living space above on the Oregon Coast. Money is tight with Lena's hospital bills, her family is growing increasingly difficult to be around, she is facing horrible bullies at school, and is forced to go to speech therapy-and it isn't getting better. Sometimes she wonders where the meaning in her life is.
In the middle of all of this, she meets Yana and Mysha, two Ukrainian refugees, and her kind and bookish English teacher Ms. Poverly becomes aware of her problems, and everything seems okay for a while.
But in a few moments of time when they aren't there when she needs it, the bullies are mean in a different way than normal-and while the consequences aren't too drastic, everything gets harder. Can Everly manage her problems on her own, or is it finally time to ask for help? And maybe, just maybe, can things get better?
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