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FAMILY & HOME STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). In a new town, Dovi s family befriends a young boy who was abandoned at their restaurant Dovi Chandler collects yearbooks. She has them from all over the country: mementos of every time her parents uprooted her to a new town, and a new crackpot business venture. They ve managed apartment houses, tried to save failing bookstores, even sold Tupperware, but all it s ever gotten them is debt and a new yearbook for Dovi to add to the pile. It s not until her parents take over the Pig-Out Inn that Dovi feels ready to put down roots. It s just another truck-stop diner, but to Dovi it s home and she soon discovers that she and her family aren t the only ones living there. Hiding out in 1 of the cabins is a 9-year-old boy named Tag. He was stashed there by his father, who is negotiating a painful divorce. Ages 9+