<p> Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun. </p> <p> That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook. </p> <p> Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping, Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killing Torture?school. She feels her heart getting smaller and smaller and hardening into a sharp, black stone. </p> <p> How can things go from righter than right to a million miles beyond wrong? Can Ida B put together a plan to get things back to just-about perfect again? </p>