Moving, changing schools, a new home is always difficult. Especially if you used to live in sunny Florida, and now in rainy Chicago. Tessa Woodward really misses her best friend, the beach and the ocean. She has not yet had time to make new friends and can not get used to her house on Shady Street. And how can you! Missing boxes, open dresser drawers, unexplained drawings and persistent power failures... And then Tessa's little brother's wooden doll starts crying and talking.