The Book of Lost Things

The world that a twelve-year-old English boy gets into—like the world he comes from—is equally entangled in a sinister web of war. Here, it is World War II; there, wars for power between the terrible Bent Man and the lycanthropes—half-wolves, half-humans. Even the sun in the world of living fairy tales prefers to shine only half strength, and the half-darkness it fills is populated by nightmares brought to life from the dreams and fears of our world. And to survive in this kingdom of shadows—and especially to win—you have to accomplish the impossible: change yourself…