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ellie And Her Little Brother Danny Spend Their Lonely Days Making Up Stories About A Young Girl In A World Of Dragons And Shape-shifters, A Girl As Brave And Cunning As They Would Like To Be. five Years Later Danny Disappears. The Police Have No Clues. They Fear He Is Dead, But Ellie Knows Better. She Also Knows That She Is The Only One Who Can Find Him. at The Same Time, In The World Danny And Ellie Imagined, A Young Girl Named Argent Sets Off On A Quest Of Her Own To Reclaim A Stolen Dragon Hatchling. as Each Girl Makes Her Way Closer To Her Goal, The Boundaries Between The Worlds Of Fantasy And Reality Begin To Blur Until It's Unclear Where One World Ends And The Other Begins. Gripping, Compelling, And Utterly Absorbing, glint Is The Story Of Two Worlds--and Two Heroines--that Readers Will Never Forget. children's Literature in This Fantasy Story, Coburn Skillfully Braids Together The Adventures Of Ellie, Danny, And Argent. Ellie And Danny Are Siblings, And Argent Is A Character They Created When They Were Younger. Danny Has Been Kidnapped, And The Line Of Questioning By The Police Angers Ellie, His Older Sister. To Stay Out Of The House And To Distract Herself, Ellie Decides To Start Looking For Danny. In Her Search, Ellie Meets All Of The Underground People (homeless, Illegal Aliens, Mentally Challenged) With Whom Danny Had Become Friends. It Is Through These Invisible Inhabitants Of Her Town That Ellie Is Able To Eventually Track And Find Her Brother. She Learns A Lot About Herself Along The Way. Meanwhile, Danny Is Tied Up, Lying On The Cold Cement Floor In The Dark. Whenever He Awakens, His Captor Injects Him With Something That Renders Him Unconscious In An Instant. Each Time Danny Fades Into Unconsciousness, The Reader Witnesses Argent In Her Struggle To Save A Mother Dragon Whose Baby Has Been Kidnapped. Argent Is The Opposite Of Ellie: Argent Is Strong-willed, Ellie Second-guesses Herself; Argent Is Brave, Ellie Plays It Safe; Argent Is Independent, Ellie Relies On The Support Of Those Around Her. The Stories Of The Three Are Well Told And Smoothly Joined Together At The End. If Ellie is to find her brother, she must be like Argent, behave like the other girl would. Follow Argent's way, a spiral way, outside the edges of reality. And just as Argent gets help from the mysterious Lukos, could another outsider, living on the fringes of society help Ellie in her hunt for her brother? Ages 10+ years. In This Compelling Novel Of Parallel Happenings In Two Different Worlds, Ellie Must Behave Like The Girl Argent Would, In The Other World, If She Is To Find Her Missing Brother. Argent, In Her Own Search For The Missing Baby Dragon, Gets Help From The Mysterious Outsider Lukos. Must Ellie Do The Same In Her World? While fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year-old brother, Danny, in alternating chapters Danny dreams of a parallel quest in a fantasy world of dragons and shapeshifters that he and Ellie knew as children.