I'm Dan Hope and deep inside my head I keep a list of things I want to come true.

For example, I want my sister, Ninja Grace, to go to university at the North Pole and only come back once a year.

I want to help Sherlock Holmes solve his most daring mystery yet. And if it could be a zombie mystery, all the more exciting.

I want my dog to stop eating the planets and throwing them up on the carpet.

And finally, the biggest dream of all, I want my dad to love me.

Midge doesn't want to go to a new school. He wants everything to go back to the way it was - with his old school, his old friends and his parents back together. Mo is Midge's buddy at his new school. She's super smiley and can't wait to be his friend, but the more Mo tries to make friends the more Midge retreats. It's like there's an invisible raincloud hanging above his head - drip-drip-drip. Then Mo remembers how she felt when she was new and it makes her even more determined to help Midge feel happy and to show him that the sun will come out for him again soon... A poignant and heart-warming story about new beginnings.