New York: Harper Collins, (2004). Hardcover - An unusual coming-of-age story of a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents . . "everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery, but when a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past." Basis for the film of the same name. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-066236223.