In Tagâs world, children are disappearing. âYoungersâ who venture Outside are windsweptâvanishing in the swirling snowâTagâs sisters among them. Many have tried to find the lost children; all have failed. And since the Other Times, the Powers That Be seem intent on keeping it that way.
Little remains from those times: snippets of songs, heaps of plastic trash, and a few banned textsâincluding a book of fairytales.
An unlikely crew of Youngers join forcesâBoots, who can climb anything, Ant, who will eat anything, Ren, who will say anything, and Tag, who doesnât appear to have any talent whatsoever. With their dubious skills, the fairytales, a possibly magic ribbon, and an unwillingness to accept âthatâs impossible,â they set off to rescue their windswept siblings in this spellbinding fantasy from Newbery Honor winner Margi Preus.
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