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  • The World Between Blinks by Amie Kaufman
  • April Spisak

Kaufman, Amie The World Between Blinks; by Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin. Quill Tree, 2021 [336p] (The World Between Blinks) Trade ed. ISBN 9780062882240 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780062882264 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-7

A grieving Marisol is helping to pack up her grandmother's South Carolina home, and finding an old map of Nana's that promises treasure is a welcome distraction, so she coaxes her cousin Jake into joining her on an adventure. However, when they end up in a parallel world that holds all the things lost in our world (from long extinct animals to Amelia Earhart herself), they quickly realize they're finding more excitement and danger than they bargained for: a key feature of the World Between Blinks is that your memories of the real world fade until they are gone completely. Underpinning the fast-paced adventure romp through the world of the missing are Jake and Marisol's deep mourning and their distinct ways of coping. Marisol wants to cling to the house as a proxy for her grandmother while Jake, the son of a peripatetic diplomat, may be the perfect person to ease her toward understanding that a place isn't essential to help you remember a beloved someone. The extensive "Curator's Files" feature short, clever, and newsy entries that will cue readers in on the real historical people, places, and animals that exist in the World Between Blinks. [End Page 175]

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