In this novel, 13-year-old Birdie tells us about the year her widowed mother opened up The Cheese Shop. Birdie works there in the summer unpaid because her mom can't afford to pay her. She becomes friends with Nick who makes special pasta and Swoozie who helps sell the cheese. At the end of each day she takes the unsold bread, pasta, and cheese out by the dumpster to leave it for whoever might want it. One evening at the dumpster, she meets Emmet, a runaway who is in search of a magic Native American hot spring which when one jumps into it will help cure what ails you. He is hoping it will bring his father back to his family and cure his ill brother. Should Birdie go on this wild quest with Emmet or stay behind and continue her "normal" life?
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