"It’s not every girl who can walk to the edge of her world—what others have been told and continue to take for granted is the boundary of the known universe—and dare to take another step. Without fear, and without looking back, she kept walking."

They were the last of the literates in a world in which the written word was obliterated. They made stuffed animals out of found materials and used them to tell stories to their daughter, stories that would pass on everything they knew. Before the year's end. Before they're killed in the resistance.

Before their daughter remembers that they are already gone.

You see, the little girl has the power to resurrect one person from the dead for one year. She had wished for her parents to come back, but didn't know her own gift. Now she must make the most of it. Who can she bring back to guide her? Who can help bring about the change her world desperately needs?

In each subsequent book, she will resurrect a great thinker from history who will help her piece together truths about what makes a just society, how to overcome tyranny, how to be an ideal citizen of the world, and how to start rebuilding the world in which she lives.