The Hot Hurry of Mercurial Fleeting
Mercurial Kay Fleeting and her mother Molly are on the run again after another supposed “Dad Sighting.” Mercurial has her doubts and is tired of her mom dragging around the past everywhere they go—part of that past, literally. Each time they make a move Molly must bring her favorite memory with them—the entire living room from her childhood home. Setting up this memory in a self-storage unit is family therapy. The only therapy they can afford.
Mercurial is a sixth grader battling anger issues and keenly skilled at selling lies. She’s been transplanted into eleven different schools and can never get a strong root system growing. However, Mercurial hopes this could be their last move. The newest complex, Brighton Day Self-Storage, offers Molly a business proposal that keeps her favorite memory close and introduces Mercurial to a strange set of special clients who rent units on the site: a weird wannabe FBI agent, a shy veteran accountant who dreams of being a stand-up comedian, a secretly famous tortured painter, and a teenage lead singer of a garage band stuck playing to highway traffic.
As Mercurial grows to know these unique customers she realizes her mom is not the only person who keeps more than material items in a self-storage unit. Mercurial is determined to build a family out of these lonely souls, but this seems to cause more harm than good. Will Mercurial and her mom have to run again? Will that painful part of their past finally catch up and gulp down their here and now?
Mercurial Kay Fleeting and her mother Molly are on the run again after another supposed “Dad Sighting.” Mercurial has her doubts and is tired of her mom dragging around the past everywhere they go—part of that past, literally. Each time they make a move Molly must bring her favorite memory with them—the entire living room from her childhood home. Setting up this memory in a self-storage unit is family therapy. The only therapy they can afford.
Mercurial is a sixth grader battling anger issues and keenly skilled at selling lies. She’s been transplanted into eleven different schools and can never get a strong root system growing. However, Mercurial hopes this could be their last move. The newest complex, Brighton Day Self-Storage, offers Molly a business proposal that keeps her favorite memory close and introduces Mercurial to a strange set of special clients who rent units on the site: a weird wannabe FBI agent, a shy veteran accountant who dreams of being a stand-up comedian, a secretly famous tortured painter, and a teenage lead singer of a garage band stuck playing to highway traffic.
As Mercurial grows to know these unique customers she realizes her mom is not the only person who keeps more than material items in a self-storage unit. Mercurial is determined to build a family out of these lonely souls, but this seems to cause more harm than good. Will Mercurial and her mom have to run again? Will that painful part of their past finally catch up and gulp down their here and now?
The Glimpsing Book
A strange new librarian and a cryptic book collide in the lives of two children as they launch a real-life journey far beyond the back of the library and the reaches of the imagination. Sebastian Wey and Henrietta Harper discover that reading, like life, is not a spectator sport, and the power of a great story has the magic to make the seemingly impossible possible.
However, don’t say the word magic to Sebastian, who believes that a logical explanation is at the root of every scenario. Mr. Rational seventh grader is the only child of nomadic parents. At age three he proudly unveiled the truth behind Santa Claus, and his mother, a biographer whom even the Smithsonian calls to verify facts, has shaped his no-nonsense mind. Although his parents’ intriguing professions sweep Sebastian across the world, he is missing meaningful friendships that his trusty laptop and a good wireless connection simply cannot provide.
When Sebastian uncovers several historical photographs appearing to hold clues to the mysterious book, his reasonable world smashes directly into Henrietta, a reclusive twelve-year-old mourning the premature death of her best friend, her mother. Henrietta deals with her loss by hiding in the back of the library, where the pain of reality melts away as she loses herself in the fascinating realm of fantasy novels.
With the power of a megaton magnet, the baffling text draws the two strangers together, challenging Sebastian’s logical mind as they begin to understand that the mystical manuscript changes to reflect the life of whoever is reading it. Eventually they grasp that the book’s living storyline offers each reader glimpses into his or her future.
A strange new librarian and a cryptic book collide in the lives of two children as they launch a real-life journey far beyond the back of the library and the reaches of the imagination. Sebastian Wey and Henrietta Harper discover that reading, like life, is not a spectator sport, and the power of a great story has the magic to make the seemingly impossible possible.
However, don’t say the word magic to Sebastian, who believes that a logical explanation is at the root of every scenario. Mr. Rational seventh grader is the only child of nomadic parents. At age three he proudly unveiled the truth behind Santa Claus, and his mother, a biographer whom even the Smithsonian calls to verify facts, has shaped his no-nonsense mind. Although his parents’ intriguing professions sweep Sebastian across the world, he is missing meaningful friendships that his trusty laptop and a good wireless connection simply cannot provide.
When Sebastian uncovers several historical photographs appearing to hold clues to the mysterious book, his reasonable world smashes directly into Henrietta, a reclusive twelve-year-old mourning the premature death of her best friend, her mother. Henrietta deals with her loss by hiding in the back of the library, where the pain of reality melts away as she loses herself in the fascinating realm of fantasy novels.
With the power of a megaton magnet, the baffling text draws the two strangers together, challenging Sebastian’s logical mind as they begin to understand that the mystical manuscript changes to reflect the life of whoever is reading it. Eventually they grasp that the book’s living storyline offers each reader glimpses into his or her future.