Book description
Rosemary Watson lives in the small town of Clarksbury, where news
travels fast and gossip sticks around. Years before, her brother Theo
suffered a nervous breakdown, and Rosemary, now entering junior high,
is constantly teased about it. She wonders if she might go crazy like
her brother, and she feels guilty for not being able to save him. She
tries to hide in books, but even there she's uneasy: she can't stand
to see characters suffer. She's happiest in the cool world of fact and figures.
Rosemary and Peter - the new kid in school with issues of his own -
are thrown together, and soon find themselves on a life-or-death quest
to rescue Rosemary's brother, who has lost himself in a book. With the
help of Peter and her guide, faerie shape-shifter Puck, Rosemary must
face the storybook perils of the Land of Fiction and learn to open her
heart, before it is too late.
"Both The Unwritten Girl and Fathom Five are interesting novels
of fantasy…both boys and girls will be able to relate to, and find equal
pleasure in, reading this series."
James Bow's first novel,
The Unwritten Girl, introduced readers to the strange and
compelling worlds of Rosemary and Peter in 2006. A transit enthusiast,
urban planner, and freelance journalist, James lives in Kitchener,
Ontario, with his wife, poet Erin Noteboom.
