Hucky Harper is a quiet and deaf six-year old child who meets T.C. at the park while T.C. is playing baseball. Without his parents. Hucky lives at the Boston Institute for the Deaf. T.C. befriends Hucky and becomes an older brother for him, doing everything from naming a star after him to watching Mary Poppins with him, and getting Julie Andrews to write a letter to, and speak to Hucky. By the end of the novel. Hucky is happy and has come to view T.C., Augie, and Alejandra as older siblings after he is adopted by Ted.