'Eleven-year-old Zadie Ma has what her younger brother Teddy calls a “superpower”: some of the stories that Zadie writes come true. It’s true of the ants whose lives Zadie saves from her mother’s wrath by writing a story about a little ant who anticipates the poison. It’s true of a fox she writes about that then appears. And now, she’s written a story about a dog named Jupiter because the only thing Zadie wants is a dog and, as she tells herself:
“If I want something bad enough I gotta make it happen… And I will” (Introduction)
