A story of abandonment and friendship and finding your "luck".  Blue Montgomery's father leaves him at the family homestead without a word to his family.  He is off to pursue his "luck" as a race car driver.  Blue has the family "curse" of always losing.  Tumble, a new neighbor, works hard to be heroic but something always goes wrong.  In deciding to "save" Blue from his fate she also changes her own.  A thoughtful book that requires a careful reading, but the reader will be well rewarded.