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" Alaric Underwood is a 16-year-old boy who lost his mother, Alex Underwood, two years prior in a train crash. While snowed in at home with only his zany aunt for company, he reflects on memories of his mother. He looks at a model of his house carved from an old oak tree inside a glass dome--something his mother made, which she called a folly. The folly takes Alaric to a parallel universe, where his mother is still alive. However, in the other life, his mother had a girl instead of a boy. Alaraic comes face-to-face with his female counterpart, Naia.
In Naia's world, Alex was in the train that crashed, but she had a 50/50 chance of survival, and managed to survive in that lifetime. Naia and Alaric meet, and try to make sense of what happened. Naia discovers she can travel to Alaric's world just as he did to hers. Alaric is happy for the first time in two years when entering Naia's world, because his mother is alive there. Alex meets Alaric in the cemetery and is naturally curious about the stranger with a resemblance to her daughter. Later, Naia and Alaric try to enter each other's parallel universe simultaneously, and discover that it cannot be done. "
Cassie, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- on a parallel earth in another dimension
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Kid's book (ages 7-14)
Family relations
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Style
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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