Tristan Strong is a seventh grader who lost his best friend Eddie in a tragic bus accident they were in together. Consumed by guilt and grief, Tristan holds tight to the one piece of Eddie that he has left: his journal. Their journal. When Tristan arrives in Alabama to spend a month with his grandparents, a creature shows up in the middle of the night and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan has no idea what adventures await him as he sets off to find the journal, and himself.