June shaves her head and sets two goals: She will beat her anxiety to become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees. And then she and her single mom will own their power as fierce, independent females. With the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star who believes in June - even when she doesn't believe in herself - June starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true. But when her anxiety becomes too much, everything she's created begins to fall apart. it's going to take more than a haircut and some flowers to set things right. It's going to take courage and friends and watermelon pie. Forget second chances. This is the summer of new beginnings.