Over the Woodward Wall
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ISBN10: 076539927X
ISBN13: 9780765399274
Hardcover
208 Pages
$17.99
CA$24.50
If you trust her you’ll never make it home . . .
Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework—without complaint, without fuss, without prompt.
Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable.
They live on the same street.
They live in different worlds.
On an unplanned detour from home to school one morning, Avery and Zib find themselves climbing over a stone wall into the Up and Under—an impossible land filled with mystery, adventure and the strangest creatures.
And they must find themselves and each other if they are to also find their way out and back to their own lives.
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Praise for Over the Woodward Wall
"A peculiar but often profound piece of metafiction whose emotional landscape offers more riches than its physical one."—Kirkus Reviews
"With lyrical prose and deep stores of emotion, this grown-up fairy tale works on every level."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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THE SAME ORDINARY TOWN
In the same ordinary town, on the same ordinary street, lived two very different, very ordinary children who had never quite managed to cross paths with one another. This, too, was sadly ordinary, for...
