Drew is a girl who keeps to herself for the most part. She actually enjoys helping her Mom and the gourmet cheese shop, taking care of her pet rat and learning to make the perfect linguine from the perfect surfer Nick that works for her Mom. She doesn't understand the obsession that the other girls at school have with boys, but this soon changes when her rat leads her to Emmett Crane, a boy that is full of mystery and Drew is definitely intrigued. However, when he goes missing for days on end Drew starts to think that boys are just as much a waste of time as she suspected.
When Emmett shows up again at the cheese shop her interest is instantly reignited as she finds out that Emmett is actually a runaway in search of the truth that he found as a boy in the Native American tales told to him by his Father. Drew is also in search of answers concerning her own Father, who died when she was only three. Drew found notebook of her Father's with random lists of his like, dislikes and dreams for his own life that was cut so short.
Drew makes the instantaneous decision to embark on an adventure to San Francisco with Emmett in search of healing waters from one such tale. Uncharacteristically, Drew takes money from the shop and hops on a train with no definite plan in mind. The two find the pond and during the trip also find that Emmett's place is traveling while Drew's is with her Mother.
I felt that this book was fast read, though, the ending seemed abrupt and much too neatly packaged. While there is a bit of romantic intrigue between Drew and Emmett, nothing is ever acted upon and Emmett comes across as being an older character from a cheesy romance film. I think that the dialogue was realistic and moving at times and that this book would hold the attention of teenage girls who may have their own dreams of running away with a runaway.
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