The Divide trilogy
Series of novels by Elizabeth Kay
The Divide trilogy is a fantasy young adult novel trilogy by Elizabeth Kay, which takes place in an alternate universe. The three books are The Divide (2002), Back to The Divide (2005), and Jinx on The Divide (2006). The first novel was originally published by the small press publisher Chicken House (now a division of Scholastic), with subsequent volumes published by Scholastic, which also reprinted the first novel. The books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and Dutch. Interior illustrations are by Ted Dewan.
The Divide
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A thirteen-year-old boy, Felix Sanders, has a life-threatening heart condition. While his family is vacationing in Costa Rica at a place called the Divide, the point where water flows to both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, he passes out and he finds himself in an alternate world, where the Earth's mythical creatures are real and humans are a legend. He sets off on a journey with a resident of this world, Betony, a tangle-child (elf) who later becomes his lifelong best friend, to cure his illness and get home. Felix and Betony's siblings, Tansy and Ramson, tangle with a cunning japegrin (pixie) named Snakeweed, who markets his company called Global Panaceas, an unscrupulous potions business. Snakeweed captures Ramson and Felix with the help of his sinistroms (devil-hyenas) Architrex and Vomidor to get information, but unable to extract anything useful, throws them both in jail.
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