Ariel (no, not the little mermaid) Flack is obsessed with exactly two things: skittles (who wouldn't be?) and sending postcards home to Gloves, her cat, and Dylan, her almost-sort of-kinda boyfriend. After her dad gambles the family's life savings away (not to mention Ariel and her little sister's college money) and embezzles from his company, her family's dilemma is splashed across the cover of newspapers everywhere. Soon after, Ariel's mom divorces her gambling husband and like only a self-help author can, drags her reluctant two daughters, Ariel and Zena, into a weeklong bus tour called Leisure Lee's. Sound bad? You haven't heard the worst of it. In an attempt to give her daughters a "responsible male figure" in their lives, their eccentric uncle, who has a bizarre phobia of squirrels, is along for the ride as well with their grandparents too. Just when everything seems to be awful (who wants to spend a week in a small space with a gazillion senior citizens?), Ariel discovers the other reluctant teen on board - Andre. Together, they plot to escape their "prison" and Ariel decides that maybe, just maybe - mind you, things aren't so bad after all. In this wonderful bit of realistic fiction, the characters come alive and well, this is as "fantasterrific as it gets, folks.