When Annie Rossi's mother got sick, no one, absolutely no one, expected her to die - least of all eight-year-old Annie.
Now it's just Annie and her father in a too-big, too-quite apartment, and nothing is the same. Day by day Annie finds life goes on. Seasons pass. Day by day Annie finds pockets of happiness. A special school assembly.. a wonderful blizzard.. a birthday party... and of course, the present from Mrs. Rossi's sixth-grade-class- a book entirely about her mother. Made entirely by her class.