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 Outhes Got Some Good Friends At School And Desperately Wants Himself And His Deaf Brother Billy To Put Down Roots. But The Curse Returnsso He Must Find A Way To Break It.