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Gr 6-8–There’s a pretty good story at the center of this novel. Twelve-year-old Tommy Pepper, his little sister, and their father are struggling through the grief of his mother’s sudden death. Tommy and his mother parted on bad terms that terrible day, and he feels that her anger precipitated her car accident on an icy road. Patty has not spoken since. The family is also resisting the attempts of an unscrupulous developer to oust them from their beloved house in Plymouth, Massachusetts, so she can build waterfro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Schmidt brings high heroic fantasy and contemporary realism together in this novel of a bereaved family. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Tommy grieves for his mother, who died eight months ago. And on a distant planet in "Weoruld Ethelim," Young Waeglim invests all the Art of the destroyed Valorim -- his culture -- into a chain necklace, sending it into the universe to keep it safe from evil Lord Mondus. When the chain falls through worlds...Log In or Sign Up to Read More