"Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie has embarked 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 ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Series
2 primary booksHalf World is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2009 with contributions by Hiromi Goto.
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Middle grade? YA? I'm never sure where the line is. This is a pretty traditional story arc of special child -> going into the liminal world -> changing as a person -> changing the world + coming home! Hero-with-a-thousand-faces style.
