"When 11 year old Miriam Peterson turns on the faucet at Grammy's house and nothing comes out, it feels like the final straw. She's late for the Science Camp she doesn't even want to go to; her father and brothers are far away on another continent; and most of all, she misses her mom so badly it hurts - the mom that no one else believes will ever come back. But when something does finally drip out of that faucet, it will change Miriam's life forever. She will go on incredible journeys that no human child should be able to make. She will become friends with a boy whose life could not be more different to hers. And, most incredible of all, she will discover eighty-one astonishing beings who might just hold the future of the world in their ancient and watery grasp. The Waterubas"--Amazon. ca.