Dante is a very captivating twelve year old. He has a great deal of values. In addition to loving and caring mother who tells him that he can do and be anything. However, he is still in the fifth grade. He is really down on himself. He feels that if his father. The man that helped to create him. Could turn his back and walk away.

Then he must be defective. Therefore Dante mentally refused to give his all at anything. Everyone else seems to believe in him more than he believes in himself. He is faced with a lot of challenges and changes. A new school, a new teacher, a few secrets. Everything he has ever known is about to change. Will it change for the better or will it make things worse?.