This is painfully, painfully bad, and as such I only got half way through it. Almost every page has rhetorical questions the characters ask themselves in the author's attempt at super-thinly veiled foreshadowing and suspense building. How many times can one person wonder: will she ever come back?...
Originally I thought this book was for baseball fans in 5th and 6th grade - and it is - but there are so many fantasy elements that the reader needs to be comfortable with that genre as well. Baggott imagines that the curse that kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series for 80+ years was an ...
There is a city beneath New York City, one made by and for Anybodies. There you can find Bing Chubb's Ballpark, Willy Fattler's ever–changing Underground Hotel, and a castle whose spire sticks up into the dirt–filled sky...dangerously close to the rear ends of unsuspecting picnic–goers in Central...
If you've ever whiled away an afternoon dreaming of another world, then you know that place is real.Oyster R. Motel has dreamed of another world for almost his whole life. (But that's only understandable—he's been raised in a nunnery. Do you think nuns approve of swinging from the belfry? Of rais...
Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .When I was a teenager I uncovered a photo album in my grandparent’s house, tucked into the back of a cabinet, dusty and long neglected under stacks of hoarded papers. The album was full of pictures taken in Japan, where my grandfather had been stationed after ...
If Tilton pulls these pages from their hiding place, they will likely move out into the world. Will Tilton read them herself? It doesn’t matter, Tilton. We know each other as constants, deeper than any details. Ruthie will read these pages, if given the chance. She may be a grown woman with her o...
Partridge will come for her. They’ll start a new life. He loves her. She remembers walking with Partridge to the subway car, the dusty wind kicking up her cape. He kissed her, quickly, before Mother Hestra could catch them. After they lay with each other in the warden’s house, Partridge was the o...