For Ages
8 to 12

Combine the thought-provoking time travel of When You Reach Me with the humorous storytelling of Lemony Snicket, and you get a wholly original journey through time, space, and the depths of the human heart.

This is a story of things that are not possible.

It's not possible for Amy to see spirits. (She does.)
It's not possible that Amy and Moo can communicate using only their minds. (They do.)
It's not possible to time-travel. (Yet.)
And it's definitely not possible that witches exist. (Seriously?)

None of these things are possible. (Until now . . .)

An Excerpt fromTwo Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House

Amy Wood was planning to rob the Everything Store.
 
You know the kind of store I mean. It’s where you go to get prescriptions, and they also have dog food and Christmas lights and . . . well, everything. Anyhow, at Halloween time they sold these hoodies that looked like butterflies, and Amy planned to steal one.
 
One Friday afternoon, she hopped onto her bike after school and headed for the store.
 
It wasn’t an impulse. No one had dared her to do it. She didn’t need a hoodie to keep warm. She didn’t have a disease where she couldn’t help stealing or didn’t know any better.
 
It was an experiment. She simply wanted to see if she could do it without getting caught. She had an argument with herself as she rode down the street.
 
“I think I can get away with it,” she said to herself (a parallel-dimension self, visible in her rearview mirror).
 
“On the other hand,” Self said back, “there’s a strong probability that you…

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