  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 09/15/2016 A disturbing hallucination at school becomes just one aspect of new reality for 13-year-old Marcus. He’s seeing ghosts and battling a malevolent spirit that threatens him, his family, and his friends in hopes that he will relinquish the Paradox key. Placed in any door, this old-fashioned key creates a portal to the Library, a repository of finished and unfinished stories in which supernatural forces create disturbances in the world. Though recent friction at home makes it hard to ask his adoptive parents for help, Marcus can always count on his friends Theo and Lu, who stick with him despite their terror. In the engaging first-person narrative, Marcus disarmingly says of his two best friends, “we looked like the cast of some kids’ show trying to cover all its ethnic bases.” This novel tells a compelling tale, while setting up the framework for a longer story arc. Readers who love action and adventure, lightened with a bit of humor, will look forward to meeting Marcus, Lu, and Theo again in the Library series. - Copyright 2016 Booklist. Loading...
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