Minerva’s life unexpectedly intertwines with those of the two other teenage employees: dimpled, nonconformist Hayes and the ultrabeautiful Cassie. Meanwhile, she and her jocular best friend, Fin, land jobs with Get Happy, a company that provides costumed entertainment for children’s birthday parties. With a puzzling accompanying card, the birthday gift-a silver sea horse necklace-turns out to be a clue to her father’s identity. Shaken and worried that her mother might see it, she quickly stashes it in her backpack, later to open it at school. But when her mother’s out of the room, a FedEx package arrives from her father. Despite numerous dropped hints to her mother about a ukulele, she receives a cardigan instead. Writing song lyrics has been a great outlet for her, but Minerva needs one more thing: an instrument. Minerva doesn’t know much about her father-her mother has kept mysteriously mum-but she does know he abandoned them when she was 2. On her 16th birthday, not only does Minerva Watson not get the gift she wanted, she receives an unwanted gift-from her estranged father.
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