As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

"When a sandwich goes missing, it seems that a bear is the unlikely culprit"--