Glaser, Mehthild. The Book Jumper.

Glaser, Mehthild. The Book Jumper. Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends     2017  371p  $17.99      ISBN 978-1-250-08666-2  ms/hs  Fantasy  E-BN    

Amy Lennox loves reading. She discovers that she is part of a book-jumping family. However, all is not well in “Book Land”. Amy and a cohort must jump into the books to find out why parts of the stories are disappearing.      The Book Jumper is a very well written and all-encompassing story that will entrance young readers. The unique concept that readers can actually jump into a story and interact with characters on the margins is a mysterious yet potentially addicting situation.

The author takes readers through many of literature’s finest works when Anne and Will enter the Porte Litterae.

Teachers will appreciate that readers will meet characters from fairytales, Sherlock Holmes, the Little Prince, Macbeth, Alice In Wonderland, and others such as Werther (from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe). Some readers will chuckle when the White Rabbit loses his watch and ability to talk. Others will chuckle when the following happens: “Sleeping Beauty wakes up halfway through the hundred years’ sleep and refuses to wait for the prince, Dorian Grey loses his picture, and the Elf King has vanished.”

This is a fast-paced, enjoyable read that has all of the basic ingredients of a good book (action, romance, and mystery), in stark contrast to the theft of core ingredients from the stories that are watched over by the book jumpers.
                 

Summary: Amy Lennox loves reading. She discovers that she is part of a book-jumping family. However, all is not well in “Book Land”. Amy and a cohort must jump into the books to find out why parts of the stories are disappearing.    

Reading-Fiction, Books-Fiction                                          --Linda McNeil