Three starred reviews
**A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2019
**
Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real
Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love,
and the struggles inherent in growing up.
When you're an identical twin*,* your story always starts with someone
else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark.
Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has
been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant--and from their first moments in
the world together, they've never left each other's side. Everyone
around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: they
had better outcomes when they were together.
When fifth grade arrives, however, it's decided that Iris and Lark
should be split into different classrooms, and something breaks in them
both.
Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals
with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is
happening in the city around them, things both great and small going
missing without a trace.
As Iris begins to understand that anything can be lost in the blink of
an eye, she decides it's up to her to find a way to keep her sister
safe.