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Melanie Tamaki lives in poverty with a loving but absent mother and struggles to survive each day as an unpopular outsider at school. When her mother vanishes, lured by a night‑creature named Mr. Glueskin into a strange realm called Half World, Melanie must set out on a daunting, darkly fantastical quest to rescue her. As she travels through this otherworld, she discovers that the fate of the entire universe depends on her resolve.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Coming of Age/Teen Coming of Age
Authors: Hiromi Goto
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