Both of them survived and made a full recovery. During a Ski trip with the boarding school, Lila and Guthrie get trapped in an avalanche and are saved because Dinnie watched where they fell and was thus able to locate them. The group is later joined by an Italian girl named Mari. She also gets to know Keisuke and Belen, a Japanese boy and a Spanish girl, who love each other but their parents are not supportive of their relationship. Dinnie also has a friend named Guthrie, a spontaneous and fun-loving 'fantastico!' person. She befriends a girl named Lila, who at first seems nice but then starts complaining a lot, but Dinnie still really likes her.

With her older brother in the Air Force after ending up in jail again, her sixteen-year-old sister pregnant and married, and her dad still on the road for yet another home, Dinnie is taken away by her aunt and her husband to Switzerland, where Uncle Max (her uncle) is the new headmaster of an international boarding school.ĭinnie becomes a student at the school, where she makes friends, sees new, exciting things, and has many adventures of her own.

Dinnie feels that she has settled into this routine of never having a permanent home until one night, her whole world changes. Domenica Santolina Doone, known as Dinnie, has spent most of her life traveling around the United States because her father is transiently employed.

Bloomability by sharon creech