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Gr 6-9 A thought-provoking contemporary novel with elements of fantasy. Gina lives with her father and brother in Cleveland, OH, Jamie with his father and sisters in a preindustrial enchanted forest. When Gina embarks on a soul journey to discover the truth about her father's odd behavior, she arrives in Jamie's world, where he was imprisoned while searching for his own father's secret. Gina frees Jamie before she returns home, and their brief encounter brings some peace to Jamie's family and, perhaps, t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gina, a high-school freshman, couldn't be more surprised to discover that her ultra-rational father is seeing a psychic than if she found out he was turning into a bear—which, coincidentally, is what's happening to Jamie's father. These two parallel stories of family secrets—one set in modern-day Ohio, the other in a lush fairy-tale woods—gradually swirl together to form an intriguing, if not entirely satisfying, puzzle. The connectin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More