While investigating the park’s suspiciously absent owner, the kids discover clues with eerie ties to Aven. Contrasted with the boys’ shyness, Aven’s tough love and occasional insensitivity provide a glimpse of how-and why-attitudes toward disability can vary. Making friends with Connor, a self-conscious white boy with Tourette’s syndrome, and Zion, a shy, overweight, black boy, allows her to blend in between them. But when her father suddenly gets a job managing Stagecoach Pass, a run-down theme park in Arizona, tales of alligator wrestling can’t stop her new classmates’ gawking.
She’s never felt self-conscious among her friends in Kansas, playing soccer and guitar and mischievously spinning wild yarns about losing her arms. True story.” Aven’s adoptive parents have always encouraged her independence. “Now that I’m thirteen years old, I don’t need much help with anything. Born without arms, white “problem-solving ninja” Aven Green can do almost anything with her feet instead-even solve a mystery.
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