My Diary from the Edge of the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442483873)

Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.

Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood has lived in Cliffden, Maine, her whole life. She's a typical girl in an atypical world: one where sasquatches helped to win the Civil War, where dragons glide over Route 1 on their way south for the winter (sometimes burning down a T.J. Maxx or an Applebee's along the way), where giants hide in caves near LA and mermaids hunt along the beaches, and where Dark Clouds come for people when they die.

To Gracie it's all pretty ho-hum...until a Cloud comes looking for her little brother Sam, turning her small-town life upside down. Determined to protect Sam against all odds, her parents pack the family into a used Winnebago and set out on an epic search for a safe place that most people say doesn't exist: The Extraordinary World. It's rumored to lie at the ends of the earth, and no one has ever made it there and lived to tell the tale. To reach it, the Lockwoods will have to learn to believe in each other--and to trust that the world holds more possibilities than they've ever imagined.

Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
ISBN-10: 1442483873
ISBN-13: 9781442483873
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2015
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 178119 / My Diary from the Edge of the World


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2015
School Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 82
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2015
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2015
Booklist 11/01/2015 pg. 61
PW Best Children's Books 11/02/2015 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 11/20/2015
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 78
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2016 pg. 86