When Friendship Followed Me Home

Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a good-bye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favourite sci-fi books? until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next door to the Coney Island Library. "Scruffy little Flip" leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley? yes, like the comet, Halley unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben begins thinking of her as "Rainbow Girl" because of her ccrazy-coloured clothes and her laugh, pure magic, the kind that makes you smile away the stormiest day. Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel with her, but as their story unfolds, Ben's life begins to unravel. Stannding at the crossroads of happiness and loss, Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home.