Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him. Suddenly, for the first time since his mother died, he finally has a reason to come down from the roof. But as much as he wants to care for a girl, Ysa – more fragile and fiercer than his birds – she will not trust easily in this beautiful book by the always dependable Williams-Garcia.