Awards and Honors2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth; 2008 School Library JournalBest Books, Fiction; NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2009, Contemporary Concerns
Jane lives with her poet mother and three younger siblings in a beach house in a small Massachusetts town. Twelve-year-old Jane wants "something more to do . . . than the usual wading in the shallows and reading and building castles on the shore." She wants the "I know not what, which is what adventures are about" and decides to pray for one hundred adventures. All summer long, Jane gets her wish-in one unexpected way after another.