When eight-year-old Erika's parents purchase a farm in Central California, she and her younger brother and sister make the most of the move at all the stops along the way. What a wonderful adventure beginning in the State of Washington. But then they reach their destination. It's far from the gorgeous two-story home with four bedrooms and two bathrooms Erika imagined. No one could prepare them for the run-down conditions that greet them, nor the wild chickens living inside the squalid cinder-block house with no electricity and no running water. 'Erika brings humor to every situation with her precocious view of becoming a farm girl. She'll captivate your heart as she tells her story of how she ended up with a waterbed and a waterbed chicken.