Early on she stumbles into a dying dryad and finds she feels a sense of need to help that dryad, but she has no idea how. Her friends include a wolf (who turns into a house when night falls–he’s a were-house), a dandy of a hoopoe bird who owes people money, and a weasel who’s just as scared as she is. Summer isn’t a queen she isn’t meant to save entire worlds. It has a taste of Narnia, but it’s on a smaller scale. How can she help on a scale that’s doable how can she find her way back home how can she escape the bad guys who immediately realize that something’s changed and there’s someone to be caught? It doesn’t take her long to discover that there’s a cancer eating away at the heart of the world, and to realize that she’s no hero to go around saving entire worlds. It’s only once Baba Yaga has thrust Summer into another world with only a talking weasel for company that Summer realizes that any story featuring Baba Yaga is unlikely to end well. Baba Yaga offers to give Summer her heart’s desire–but Summer has no idea what that is. One day Baba Yaga’s house struts into town and plops down near Summer’s house. Kingfisher, is about 11-year-old Summer, whose mother is overprotective and needy. Pros: Beautiful, heartfelt alternate-world tale
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