<p><strong>They say everything happens for a reason. Or maybe it's Penny.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Penny Angelo is turning 10 and in the Angelo family turning 10 is a very big deal. It's the day you become a junior guardian apprentice-the first step toward becoming a guardian angel. Not the robe-and-halo kind but the real-life kind who help people in ways they'll never know.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her first assignment? Helping Melanie a bookish outcast who's being bullied at school. But as Penny navigates mean girls not-so-great teachers and a less-than-helpful mentor she quickly learns that her mission is anything but simple. With wise advice from her scattered Gramps her own determination and a little magic Penny discovers there might be more to Melanie's story than meets the eye and along the way she finds her own guardian in a most unlikely form.</span></p>