My Diary from the Edge of the World
My Diary from the Edge of the World
My Diary from the Edge of the World
Jodi Lynn Anderson
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.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

Age Level: 

  • 8 - 12
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My Diary from the Edge of the World is a book written in the form of a diary.  It is about Gracie Lockwood giving her point of view of a magical trip.  Gracie is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world, a world with mermaids and dragons and sasquatches, oh my!  It also has Black Clouds, which take away the people who are going to die, and bring them to Heaven.  Gracie comes back home one day after school and a Black Cloud is at her house.  The Black Cloud comes for Gracie's little brother, Sam, so the Lockwoods leave to find the Extraordinary World.

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