★ "A fast-paced fantasy adventure that will appeal to genre fans and reluctant middle grade readers alike.” — School Library Journal
★ “[An] incredibly inventive story, chock-full of delightful descriptions and fascinating tidbits. Readers will have enormous fun following the cousins as they navigate their strange situation and piece together their place in it.” — Booklist
"An inventive, heartwarming first book in a new middle-grade series." — Kirkus Reviews
“Kaufman and Graudin take full advantage of the book’s inventive premise, introducing readers to a host of exciting historical oddities and concepts.” — Publishers Weekly
The World Between Blinks
Amie Kaufman, Ryan Graudin
Quill Tree Books / 2021
Whenever Jake and Marisol get together, adventure follows. They have their late Nana to thank for that. Her epic trips and treasure hunts were legendary.
With the whole family reuniting for one last summer vacation at Nana’s home, the cousins are prepared for an extraordinary trip of their own. Following a map Nana left behind, Jake and Marisol sneak out to a nearby lighthouse—then accidentally slip into another world!
The World Between Blinks is a magical place, where all sorts of lost things and people wind up. Everywhere they turn, the cousins find real mysteries from history and a few they thought were just myths, from pilot Amelia Earhart to the fabled city of Atlantis.
But the man who holds the key to Jake and Marisol’s journey home doesn’t want to be found . . . and if the cousins don’t catch him fast, they could end up lost in this world forever.