After her parents divorce, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother from Melbourne to her grandmother’s run-down old house in rural Australia. She struggles with country life, missing her friends, her mother’s personality change, and her father’s new, young girlfriend. After befriending Daniel, the boy next door, and making some headway in her new life, things are just starting to look up for Rain. But not for long, as Daniel is admitted to the hospital with a life-threatening condition. Told partly in poems composed with refrigerator magnets, partly in Daniel’s reports on the "aliens" next door, and partly from Rain’s perspective, this rich, quirky, and satisfying story offers plenty of humor and lots of heart.