Have you ever been really, really mad at someone? So mad that you wished they would just disappear. Have you ever been blamed for something you didn’t do and wished the other person would just get found out and the whole thing would go away?
Hex is just a boy who likes to do all the normal things kids do. He especially like to go down to the bush and play on the rope swing, dropping into the water cool and clear. Until one day when everything changes. The little girl down the street follows Hex and his friends to the creek one day even though he didn’t want her too. They played on the swing and Hex was still cranky and then everything turns upside down. A terrible accident occurs and Hex doesn’t know how to help. Instead he runs, until he finds a strange clearing and a strange old lady he’d never seen before. The old lady says she can make everything better and make the problem go away. All he had to do was crush the acorn the old lady had given him but there would be a price. There is always a price.
When the acorn accidently gets crushed, the world is different the next day but someone still gets hurt and someone still has a decision to make on how they are going to fix it and this time it could be Hex who disappears.
Is revenge ever the way to solve a problem?
How can Hex get the world back to how it should be?
A tale full of fairytale darkness where with a click of fingers only you would ever know someone had ever existed. A tale that makes us think about what would I leave behind if I disappeared and what would change.
3.5 out 5 ZZZz
Harrold, A.F. (2022). The worlds we leave behind. Bloomsbury: London, England
Marty’s grandfather had all sorts of ideas. Ideas to make the world a better place like the bum scratcher 2000 or a forever fuel made from rhubarb leaves but it was the idea that came from Marty’s birthday present that was surely impossible.
Harvard was a young boy who’s life was falling apart. His father had made a mistake at work. Now that doesn’t sound so bad but his father was a doctor and this mistake meant a baby had died. Harvard’s father couldn’t forgive himself and hadn’t gone to work since. His mother and father were always sad and then he was told he would be going back to the country town where his father grew up for a while. Without Mum. Why? How was that going to help?
Davy was funny so becoming famous shouldn’t be too hard but things don’t quite go as Davy hoped. Especially when another kid YouTuber gets in the way. Not even Davy’s suit made people pay attention.
After the INCIDENT, (read about this in book 1) Gafferty was going to try to stay out of trouble but when she discovers that old Crumpeck had found clues to finding the last Smidgen tribe what else could she do?
When the man had gone, Lisette quietly came out of the box and handed Arlo a package. Arlo had never had a package before. Taking it he read the label with his name and recognised the handwriting immediately. It was his mums but how can his dead mum send him a package.
the pipes and Aveline was on her way to her Aunt Lilian’s in the tiny seaside town of Malmouth. There is an icy wind and an even icier reception. To make things even more strange there are scarecrow type figures that start popping up outside the houses. Their cold blank eyes staring out and their arms creaking in the wind. What a strange tradition thought Aveline.
