The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada, is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where Jennifer lives with her older brother B.J., her father and mother, and their two cats Moshe and Diana. It should be a perfect, peaceful childhood - but Jennifer's mother is ill, very ill, and a childhood is the last thing Jennifer is going to be allowed...Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of one young girl's unbreakable spirit - it is both profoundly moving and deeply inspiring.