- Magic, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (a.k.a. "Lev") lives a wretched life in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. But his life is about to change and his destiny be fulfilled as he learns about a secret gateway that bridges two worlds -- the real world and Foo, a place created at the beginning of time in the folds of the mind that makes it possible for mankind to dream and hope, aspire and imagine.
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Contemporary, classical in form, epic and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Obert Skye
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Aladdin Paperbacks, Shadow Mountain
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781590383698
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