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By: Linda Sue Park. Deborah Ellis, Ruth Ozeki, Eoin Colfer, David Almond, Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, and Gregory MacGuire

When Jason and Maggie’s grandfather dies and leaves them each a seemingly bizarre inheritance the two begin to see the whole world in a new light.

This novel, a compilation of ten different authors blends writing style with story to make this book more of a fictional collaboration than a collection of stories. “Gee” Keane, a famous photojournalist dies leaving his grandson Jason a collection of autographed sports pictures and his granddaughter Maggie a wooden box filled with shells. At first the two are confused by the inheritance but it is Maggie’s determination to solve the puzzle her grandfather left behind.

The interesting component behind this book is that it isn’t a “start at point ‘A’ finish at point ‘B’” story. In fact, some of the chapters do not even involved Maggie and Jason at all but might instead be the story behind a fragment of another story. For example, Maggie is left a beautifully carved box by her grandfather and one of the chapters is the story of how that box came into existence and how her grandfather came to own it. It was very cleverly written with twists and turns including a variety of writing styles and genres.

One last interesting fact about the book is that all royalties of the book will be donated to Amnesty International, a charitable organization dedicated to protecting human rights.