Lori wanted to write the series that didn't exist when she was in her youth: one that said you're complete without a boyfriend. Meet Juliana, a 14-year-old who lives today, and her great-grandmother Elisabeth as a 14-year-old in post-WWI Eastern Europe. Elisabeth records life's lessons in a sketchbook that Juliana tries to decode 100 years later as she deals with a permanent move half-way across Canada and living with a grandfather in the early stages of dementia.