Snap rides her bike to the town witch's house to search for her missing dog G.B.

Bullies at school push Snap into a dead possum, and she discovers living babies hidden inside.

Snap brings the orphaned possum babies to Jacks, who agrees to care for them in exchange for help.

Jacks takes Snap to collect roadkill and reveals she buries the bodies and rearticulates their skeletons to sell.

Snap invites Lulu over to watch scary movies while Violet has night school, and the two become real friends.

Snap finds a photo of young Jacks with her grandmother Jessie and brings it to Jacks's house.

Jacks tells Snap how she and Jessie fell in love but separated because Jacks feared having her own family.

A bully makes a transphobic comment about Lulu, and Snap headbutts him in her friend's defense.

Violet asks Snap whether she feels like a boy; Snap says she feels like a girl but doesn't act like one.

When releasing the possum babies into the wild, Snap sees the glowing ghost of the mother possum.

Jacks formally accepts Snap as her witch apprentice after Snap insists she still wants to learn.

Snap picks up a stick G.B. fetches and channels her magic, causing Lulu's hair to grow into a long curly afro.

On Halloween, Snap uses her wand stick and accidentally nearly sends a car off a cliff; Jacks takes the wand away.

Chuck forces his way into Snap and Violet's trailer, seizes G.B., and Snap's magic strikes him in the leg.

Jacks and Jessie are reunited at Thanksgiving dinner and welcomed warmly into Snap's family.

Snap, a bold and unconventional girl, discovers that the town witch Jacks is not the monster rumor makes her out to be, and begins working for her in exchange for help with orphaned possum babies. Through their growing bond over caring for animals and rearticulating skeletons, Snap is drawn deeper into Jacks's world. After uncovering her grandmother's history with Jacks, Snap stands up for her trans best friend Lulu and confronts her own sense of identity. When she witnesses the ghost of the mother possum during the babies' release, she embraces magic fully and becomes Jacks's official apprentice. A dangerous confrontation with Violet's abusive ex Chuck forces Snap to use her magic in a real crisis, proving she is ready. The story concludes with Snap reuniting Jacks with her grandmother Jessie, bringing the found family together at Thanksgiving.

Snap's journey from skeptic to witch's apprentice, beginning to end.

Jacks jokes she ate G.B.'s leg, but Snap calls her a liar and Jacks admits she actually helped him.

After the possum incident at school, Lulu tries to check on Snap, but Snap hisses and runs away.

Lulu and Snap realize they both love Witch Hill horror movies and agree to hang out again.

Snap tells Violet she got a job helping an old woman with chores and errands.

A bookseller says a skeleton anatomy book is not for nice little girls; Violet stands up for Snap and buys it.

Jacks teaches Snap how to feed the possum babies, revealing she was once a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

Snap notices Jacks's eyepatch; Jacks jokes a fox ate her eye, then says it was a motorcycle accident.

Snap gives Lulu a purple skirt from Violet's closet, and the two have a joyful dance party with G.B.

Violet returns home and accepts Lulu wearing the skirt without comment, offering to speak to Lulu's parents if needed.

Jacks gives Snap a handmade notebook filled with hand-drawn animal skeleton diagrams as a gift.

Snap vents to Lulu about how frustratingly slow her magical training has been going.

Lulu tells Snap she has come out to her parents, who now let her choose her own clothes.

On Halloween, Jacks takes Snap flying on a levitating bench and they hover above a road to protect animals from traffic.

Violet confides to her friend Hersch that she worries she has relied on Snap to take care of herself too much.

Lulu places a seed in sunlight, and after she leaves the room it sprouts with a sparkle of purple magic.

Behind the major plot events, smaller moments quietly define who Snap, Lulu, and Jacks truly are. From Violet defending Snap's right to buy a skeleton anatomy book to Jacks gifting Snap a handmade notebook of animal diagrams, these scenes reveal the warmth underlying the story. Lulu's social transition unfolds steadily and without drama — trading her brothers' old shirt for a purple skirt, coming out to her parents, and earning their full support. Jacks's Halloween flight with Snap shows the gentler side of her magical practice, using her powers to protect animals rather than impress. Even secondary characters like Hersch reflect the story's emotional core, as Violet grapples with how much she leans on her young daughter. The pool closes with a magical coda — Lulu's seed sprouting on its own, signaling that the world of witchcraft has room for new practitioners.

The friendships, discoveries, and quieter moments that shape Snap's world.

Lulu approaches Snap during an evening walk with G.B. and apologizes for the bullies, saying they are not her friends.

Jacks claps and shouts over roadkill bodies while collecting them but refuses to explain the ritual to Snap.

Snap tells Lulu about One-Eyed Tom, the mysterious creature she believes has haunted her family for generations.

Jacks explains her clapping releases the spirits of roadkill animals so they do not die alone and forgotten.

Lulu paints Snap's nails and thanks Snap for never mocking her love of girly things.

Jacks recounts meeting Jessie at a motorcycle race where every racer assumed Jacks was male — except Jessie.

Jacks reveals her own parents threw her out of the house in her youth, which is why she feared having children.

Jacks reveals she fed her own eye to a fox she accidentally hit with her motorcycle, linking them permanently.

Snap realizes One-Eyed Tom has been protecting her family on Jacks's behalf all along, not haunting them.

A flashback reveals One-Eyed Tom turned enormous and scared Violet's abusive ex Chuck away from their home months earlier.

Jacks explains that magic is energy flowing through all living things and begins formally training Snap to channel it.

Jacks reveals her own magic was first triggered by her desperate wish to repair flowers she had accidentally crushed for Jessie.

One-Eyed Tom sees Chuck threatening Snap; the spirit of a saved buck deer animates Jacks's long-unused motorcycle.

Chuck releases his dogs on Snap, but Snap uses her magic to calm and befriend them instead.

Snap persuades a hesitant Jacks to attend Thanksgiving by mentioning her mother's name is Violet — the same flowers Jacks once brought Jessie.

At critical moments throughout the story, hidden truths are revealed that reshape how Snap sees the people and creatures around her. She learns that Jacks's mysterious roadkill rituals are acts of compassion, not dark magic, and that the creature her family feared was actually their guardian. Jacks's painful backstory — being thrown out by her parents and sacrificing her own eye to revive a fox she accidentally harmed — reframes her isolation as grief rather than misanthropy. Snap's growing command of magic is rooted in her emotional bonds: her desire to help Lulu, protect her loved ones, and earn Jacks's respect all trigger breakthroughs. Each revelation shifts the story's moral landscape, showing that what society labels as dangerous is often the most protective force in the room. The pool ends with Snap finding exactly the right words to bring Jacks back to the family she lost long ago.

The key revelations and turning points that transform Snap's understanding of magic, family, and identity.