Teen author Vivian Olson takes readers on an adventure that begins when Ela is awakened by a phone call informing her that her mother is in the hospital. When Ela arrives to see her mother, it isn't long before she finds herself hospitalized instead. Ela then sets off on a journey that takes place in her dreams to find the cure for her disease. Along the way she walks into a cardboard tree, gets proposed to by a prince, and finds out the dark truth about her "wonderful" Aunt Sophie. Will she discover the cure in the words of her diary before it's too late?
