To twelve-year-old Lisa Graham, life is over. What could have been a fabulous vacation for Lisa and her younger brother, Crackers, at their grandfather's home off the California coast, has turned into anything but. With her mother's insistence that now is the time for her to grow up and become a young lady, instead of who she really is, she knows her vacation is doomed from the start. However, one morning, when Lisa and Crackers go fishing, Lisa catches something extraordinary. When their secret is accidently leaked, chaos ensues, and life will never be the same. Conflict between different points of view on environmentalism - protection vs. extinction