While reluctantly spending spring break helping her family take care of a kennel for a family friend, ten-year-old Eve tries to befriend a surly twelve-year-old, her adorable little brother, and a very special kitten.
Ten-year-old Kim's longed-for visit with her cousin Mia is already going badly when the kitten Kim finds in the back yard is attacked by Mia's pedigreed Persian, but the discovery of a robins' nest draws the girls together.