In the new country Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish.<br><br>But her parents think she’s too young to help. And anyway they didn’t come to America for their little girl to work. “Go play with the cat!” they urge.<br><br>This doesn’t stop Shirley’s ideas of course. And one day when the rest of the family has to rush out leaving her in the store with sleepy Mrs. Gottlieb … Shirley seizes her chance!