The Bradley family are constantly escaping from a centuries old curse which means that every home they ever live in is destroyed by a typhoon or flash flood that affects no other houses on the street, or they are chased out of town by a flock of persistent birds. They have just moved to their thirteenth house and Noah wants this one to work out: he has got some good friends at school and desperately wants himself and his deaf brother Billy to put down roots. But the curse returns, so he must find a way to break it.
