After moving into their new home, a keeling-over farmhouse in the country, nine-year-old Cyrus and his brother, Rudy, have trouble adjusting to all the changes.
But when Cyrus is stranded one evening by the tide, he finds his lifeline in.
Nothing about the country feels warm or familiar.
And Rumpley, a donkey they inherited with the farmhouse, doesn\'t even know how to bray.
The eccentric girl next door has a very unusual sense of style.
The fresh-from-the-farm egg yolks are blindingly yellow.
After moving into their new home, a keeling-over farmhouse in the country, nine-year-old Cyrus and his brother, Rudy, have trouble adjusting to all the changes