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2011 Nominated

Half World

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider.

Unpopular and impoverished, she is the only child of a loving but neglectful mother. She barely copes with surviving school and life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a vile creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie embarks on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake….

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Hiromi
Goto

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Goto has created a purgatory-like place, Half World, where souls work off their karmic debt. When a cataclysm servers the ties between worlds, the half-worlders are locked in a perpetual cycle of reliving their worst sins and nightmares. A fantastic read by a master of the Fantasy Genre.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Canada, Japan
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Puffin Canada

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