Writing as A. Deborah Baker,New York Times bestselling and award-winning author SEANAN McGUIRE introduces readers to a world of talking trees and sarcastic owlsof dangerous mermaids and captivating queens in Over the Woodward Wallan exceptional tale for readers who are young at heart. If you trust her youΓÇÖll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precisefrom the way he washes his face in the morningto the way he completes his homework ΓÇô without complaintwithout fusswithout prompt. Zib is also an exceptional childbecause all children arein their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measurednothing Zib does can possibly be predictedexcept for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable. They live on the same street. They live in different worlds. On an unplanned detour from home to school one morningAvery and Zib find themselves climbing over a stone wall into the Up and Under ΓÇô an impossible land filled with mysteryadventure and the strangest creatures. And they must find themselves and each other if they are to also find their way out and back to their own lives.