When feisty nine-year-old Charlotte DeGrey hears the Mormon missionaries proclaim, "The church of Jesus Christ has been restored," she is confused. "Where has it gone? It is preached every Sunday in our drafty old church now isn't it?" She soon finds her world turned upside down when her mother and older sister become interested in the new religion being preached in the little coal mining town of Dudley, England, in 1851. Soon the family is not only ostracized but also persecuted. While she is intrigued with the new religion, she steams with resentment at their treatment by the community that threatens to plunge her family into poverty. Her journey toward her own acceptance is filled with adventures and heartbreaks. Many new challenges present themselves as she tries to curb her temper and somehow fit into each new place, from England to a year in Boston and on to Zion. Based on a true story.