Aven's dad gets the job managing Stagecoach Pass, and the family moves from Kansas to Arizona.

Aven sees Stagecoach Pass for the first time and notices the Cavanaugh family photo is missing from the park museum.

Aven attends her first day at Desert Ridge Middle School and cannot bring herself to eat in the cafeteria.

Aven meets Connor in the school library after he involuntarily barks at her and they bond over being treated differently.

Connor and Aven break into the locked shed at Stagecoach Pass and find a 1973 Cavanaugh sketchbook with drawings of a necklace.

Aven trips over Zion eating lunch alone outside school and discovers they both avoid the cafeteria for similar reasons.

Aven, Connor, and Zion search the shed together and discover a guitar inscribed with the initials A.B.C.

Connor and Aven attend a Tourette syndrome support group for the first time and meet Dexter and other kids with tics.

Aven digs up a tarnished turquoise necklace on the hill behind Stagecoach Pass.

Henry calls Aven 'Aven Cavanaugh' during the Christmas Eve dinner at the park steakhouse, and Josephine hastily ushers him away.

Zion discovers a 1973 photograph of a girl who looks identical to Aven but has arms and wears the turquoise necklace.

Someone films Connor having tics in a store, and he tells Aven she is disabled, leading to a major fight.

Aven overcomes her fear of being stared at and tries out for the school soccer team.

Aven opens the locked desk, finds a photograph of Josephine with her pregnant birth mother, and confronts Josephine about her true identity.

Aven, Connor, and Zion walk together into the school cafeteria for the first time, no longer afraid to be seen.

Aven Green's family moves to Arizona when her dad takes a job managing the run-down Stagecoach Pass theme park, uprooting Aven from everything she has known. She struggles to fit in at her new school but finds unlikely friendship with Connor, a boy with Tourette syndrome, and Zion. The three friends investigate the mystery of the park's absent owners, the Cavanaughs, uncovering clues that point unsettlingly toward Aven's own past. After a devastating fight with Connor over their disabilities, Aven faces her fears and tries out for the school soccer team. The mystery climaxes when Josephine, the park's elderly cook, is revealed to be Aven's birth grandmother and the true owner of Stagecoach Pass. Aven ultimately overcomes her fear of being stared at and walks into the school cafeteria with her friends, finally unafraid to be seen.

The headline events that define Aven's journey at Stagecoach Pass.

Aven's dad has been unemployed for months after his restaurant closed and applies for the Stagecoach Pass manager position.

Aven meets the eccentric Stagecoach Pass staff, including Henry the confused soda jerk, grumpy Bob, and Spaghetti the tumor-ridden llama.

Aven's mom surprises her with a new computer and sets up a blog to help her stay connected with friends back in Kansas.

Too embarrassed to eat in the cafeteria or outside, Aven spends several lunch periods hiding in a school bathroom stall.

Connor visits Aven at Stagecoach Pass and reveals his father left the family because of his tics and their mounting medical bills.

Aven and Connor sneak steaks under Aven's shirt and fake a shooting during the cowboy shootout show, frightening young visitors.

Connor refuses to stay for dinner at Aven's home and reluctantly admits he sometimes spits food involuntarily when he eats.

After Aven introduces Connor and Zion at school and the three walk outside together, a student shouts 'freaks' after them.

Zion's bubbly, enthusiastic mother drops him off at Stagecoach Pass for the shed search and is thrilled to meet his new friends.

Aven starts reading every available book about tarantulas and begins searching for them on the hill near Stagecoach Pass.

When students mock Connor by barking back at him in the school hallway, Aven stands up and shouts at them.

Aven visits Connor's small, sparsely furnished apartment for the first time and meets his tired, surprised mother in her bathrobe.

Inspired by the successful Christmas season, Aven proposes to her parents that Stagecoach Pass host its own art festival.

Aven's dad meets her after school with a bag of soccer gear and gives her the choice to try out or go home.

Josephine tells Aven at the festival that the turquoise necklace belonged to Aven's birth mother and was left on the hill with her ashes.

Before Aven's family even arrives at Stagecoach Pass, her dad's months of unemployment set the whole move in motion. Once there, Aven meets the park's eccentric staff and struggles privately with her isolation at school. Key friendships form through small but meaningful moments — a blog gift from her mom, a visit from Connor, and literally stumbling into Zion at lunchtime. Together, the three friends pull pranks, research tarantulas, and dig through the shed full of Cavanaugh clues. Aven also finds her voice, standing up for Connor against mockers and proposing the art festival that could save the park. The pool closes at the festival itself, when Josephine quietly reveals the heartbreaking story behind the turquoise necklace and the hillside where it was found.

The friendships, pranks, and discoveries that fill out Aven's world.

After learning her dad has been unemployed for months, Aven gives her blessing for him to apply to manage Stagecoach Pass.

Rather than blogging about soccer as her mom suggested, Aven writes her first post honestly describing how awful her new school is.

Aven climbs the hill at Stagecoach Pass and contemplates the ancient saguaro, framing her own loneliness as insignificant by comparison.

Henry confuses Aven with her birth mother, insisting she used to have arms and must have lost them in a riding accident.

Aven's parents tell the story of her adoption, explaining that her mom found her picture online and Aven spent two years in foster care.

Aven introduces Connor and Zion to each other at school and discovers the two boys already share a class together.

Aven, Connor, and Zion study the drawing in the Cavanaugh sketchbook and confirm it matches the necklace Aven unearthed on the hill.

Zion announces he wants to audition for the school play, and Aven tells him performing onstage as a cactus once made her feel invincible.

At a second Tourette support group meeting, Dexter calls Aven a superhero for using her feet, and Aven realizes the comment makes Connor jealous.

Henry tells Aven that the last tarantulas around Stagecoach Pass all left 'with her' in the year Aven was born.

Aven's parents react with surprise and exchange a troubled look after seeing the old photograph Zion found of a girl who looks like Aven.

Aven plays guitar privately for Connor for the first time, and Connor does not tic once during the entire song.

Aven hides inside an old wagon at Stagecoach Pass and discovers the words 'Aven was here' carved into the wood.

Connor and Aven make up after their fight, and Connor shares that his mother has become more active in his life.

Aven takes the stage at the art festival wearing a strappy dress and her birth mother's turquoise necklace, performing guitar for the crowd.

From the moment Aven agrees to the Arizona move, her journey is shaped by quiet revelations about herself, her friends, and her hidden past. Early clues accumulate: an honest blog post, a saguaro that reframes her pain, and an old man who keeps confusing her with someone else entirely. The mystery of Stagecoach Pass deepens as the necklace, a photograph, and Henry's cryptic comments all point toward a buried connection. Connor and Aven's fight forces Aven to confront self-doubt she has long suppressed, while small turning points — a carving in a wagon, a private guitar song, a school play conversation — slowly guide her back to herself. By the time secrets are revealed and friendships are mended, Aven is ready to step fully into her own life. Her festival performance seals a transformation that began with a single brave decision to stop hiding.