Sixteen year old Jessica was born to run. She loves it and she's good at it. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she's in an accident and she loses her leg. As we meet Jessica, she is having to face life without being able to walk to the bathroom much less run and win an 800 meter race. The story explores how Jessica feels physically and emotionally and how her parents and her sister handle the loss as well. There are the days in the hospital healing and learning to get around on crutches and finally the day when Jessica can go home. She is blessed with a great friend, Fiona, who believes in her, celebrates her and who urges her back to everything normal and that normal includes going back to school and a guy named Gavin Vance. Her teachers welcome her back and treat her carefully but in math class she wheels herself to the back and finds a place next to a girl named Rosa who is also wheelchair bound. Rosa is about to teach Jessica math and maturity. The medical costs pile up, Jessica's teammates begin to fundraise for her, and Jessica works to strengthen herself physically and emotionally with the help of some upbeat characters. So, how would you feel if you had to give up the thing that was most important to you? Short chapters move the pace of the book and the technical descriptions of the care of the severed limb and the details of the prosthesis will intrigue curious readers who wonder, "What if?" Ages 10-15 336 pages