a funny and poignant debut middlegrade novel about a fostercare girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerousnicki demere is an orphan and a pickpocket she also happens to be the us marshals best bet to keep a family alive the marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother father and son on the run from the nations most notorious criminals after all the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid not two and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals neednicki swears she can keep the trevor family safe but to do so shell have to dodge hitmen cyberbullies and the specter of standardized testing all while maintaining her marshalmandated bminus average as she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity nicki learns that the biggest threats to her familys security might not lurk on the road from new york to north carolina but rather in her own past