Swing Sideways

Annie has been promised a summer of freedom in the country. Freedom from a difficult school year, freedom from her fake “friends” back in the city, and most of all, freedom from her mom's life-governing spreadsheets and rigid schedules.When Annie meets California, who is visiting her grandfather’s farm, it seems she has found the perfect partner for the adventure she’s always craved. California climbs trees faster than a monkey, carries around an exotic pet chicken, rescues an injured stray dog, runs barefoot through the woods, and eats berries straight from the vine. Plus, California offers Annie the chance to be part of a real-life adventure: finding the ponies her mom rode as a girl, in the hopes they will reunite her broken family.But Annie’s summer of freedom is sprinkled with secrets, and everything she has learned about bravery, forgiveness, loss, and love, will be put to the test when the truth behind the ultimate secret changes her life forever