For Ruby Pepperdine, the "center of everything" is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi's hug. That's how everything is supposed to beuntil it goes spinning out of control. Ruby's best friend Lucy is mad at her. Her new friendship with Nero is pretty bumpy, too. Worst of all, Ruby regrets what happened with Gigi. How Ruby didn't listen. And now it's too late to make things right. But Ruby has one last hope. It all depends on what happens on Bunning Day, when the entire town will hear her read her winning essay. It all depends on her twelfth birthday wishunless she messes that up, too. Can Ruby's wish set everything straight in her topsy-turvy world?