A powerful and imaginative story about a girl fighting to find her way back home from a mind-bending land of the lost.

When Henry's father goes missing in the forest on her tenth birthday, her entire world shatters. The last thing she expects is for him to emerge from the trees exactly one year later, unharmed and bearing a gift for her--a strange necklace.

Everyone says her father's reappearance is a miracle, but Henry wants real answers to her questions. Where did her father go? How did he get back? And what's the truth behind his gift?

Wearing the necklace and carrying only a simple map, Henry enters the same forest that swallowed her father. But beyond the trees, she finds a world more incredible and dangerous than she ever imagined. It's a place for all who are lost, and there's no clear method of escape. As Henry follows in her father's footsteps and searches for a way home, she discovers that the truth she's seeking isn't as simple as she hoped, and if she wants to leave this world, she'll have to be braver than she's ever been.

Author: Olivia a. Cole
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316449427
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 551129 / Empty Place


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 90
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2024
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2024
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2024
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 74

About the Author

Olivia A. Cole is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. Her essays, which often focus on race and womanhood, have been published in Bitch Media, Real Simple, The LA Times, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Gay Mag, and more. She teaches creative writing at the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, where she guides her students through poetry and fiction, but also considerations of the world and who they are within it. She is the author of several books for children and adults. Learn more about Olivia and her work at oliviaacole.com and follow her on Twitter @RantingOwl.