I loved Gracie and the world she lives in. Her spunky personality will draw in lots of readers! Fun and poignant, this book is a winner! ( )

Well thought out story. - Enjoyable and recommended. ( )

My 10 year old read this and enjoyed it and passed it on to me. I loved the idea that our world is an 'alternative world' to the one featured in the book, where witches and dragons and clouds that take you away are normal. And the family dynamics were great - putting an entire family in a camper to drive to the end of the world on a plan based on hope really brings out the best and the worst in everyone, and it was great to see them working together and also realistic in times and ways that their flaws were exposed. And, not a spoiler or anything, but the ending kind of caught me off guard (which I like, especially in a younger book where things tend to be a little predictable).

Gracie Lockwood lives in Cliffden, Maine, an ordinary enough sounding city, but it is anything but ordinary. Her world is populated with flying dragons, sasquatches, giants, mermaids, witches and angels. Gracie loves her home, but when the dreaded Dark Cloud begins hanging around, apparently in search of her sickly brother Sam, her family flees in a Winnebago camper, bound for the Extraordinary World which her eccentric father is sure exists. To help them on their journey, her grandmother, a witch, suggests they get a guardian angel and gives them money to purchase one. In this fun, almost magical novel we witness Gracie's world through her diary entries in three different diaries beginning in September on her twelfth birthday. This is a wonderful, bittersweet, captivating tale of family love, told through the eyes of an extraordinary twelve-old girl and her unusual family. Written for tweens, this delightful fantasy will appeal to readers of all ages.

Sharyn H. / Marathon County Public Library
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Gracie and her family are disturbed when a Cloud shows up outside their house. A Cloud they believe has come to take the youngest in their family, Sam. They live in a version of earth that is flat, where creatures like dragons, fairies, and squatches roam the world.
Written as Gracie's diary, the book traces the family's road trip and attempt to get to Edge of the World, what their dad believe to be a conduit between their planet and our earth.
It's an interesting concept with likeable characters, but a bit of a slow go. ( )