While in Florida for six weeks to be close to her best friend, who's the team doc for the NHL's Jacksonville Rays, Tess Owens-when star forward Ryan Langley, in need a place to rehab, arrives on her doorstep-finds her life turned upside down.

"Sasha must learn that patience is important in friendships and in life" --

Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently:...