Notes

Oscar Martin was fourteen when he vanished from his Iowa farmhouse home in June 1914. His sister said that Oscar rowed out to sea, but there are no oceans in Iowa - so how was that possible? Nearly a century later, Lucy Martin and her parents move to that same farmhouse, where her father also mysteriously disappears. When she finds the magical Book of Story Beginnings,Oscar reappears and together they set out into a fantastic drea-like world in search of a happy ending.