This book is very emotional and you will probably want to cry while you're reading it. This book is about a girl named Carley Connors A twelve year old girl that gets taken from her mom after her stepdad came home and got in the middle of her and her mom's argument and severely hurt both Carley and her mom and her mom had helped Dennis beat Carley. After that happened she was put into foster care. She gets put with a family that would be considered a “perfect family.” The Murphys. She doesn't feel like she belongs there. She's never lived somewhere where she got taken care of and got everything handed to her. She's used to having to take care of herself and be hard and tough and not show any emotions and she was taught that crying was a sign …show more content…
She didn't mean to be rude to Mrs. Murphy but she always was. When she first gets there and goes into the room that she's gonna be staying in and the first thing she noticed was a sign that said “Be Someone's Hero.” and throughout her whole stay with the Murphys she looks up to the sign. Another reason it's really important to her is because she wrote tally marks on the back showing how long she's been staying with the Murphys and she's been doing it since the day she moved in. She really likes Michael Eric and Adam but Daniel the other Murphy's son doesn't really like Carley. He doesn't like her because he feels that she is taking their mom away from them. He said to her that he doesn't want her there and was being completely rude to her and made her cry and she ran away and ended falling asleep on a park bench because she felt like she wasn't wanted there. She also caused a scene at a restaurant showing that she doesn't want to be at the Murphys when Mrs. Murphy took her shopping and out on a girls day. Soon after that she started to fit in with the Murphys and Daniel started to like her because they realized they had something in common, they both like basketball and Carley helped him get better at