Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

Katey Bruscke is deliberately lost, running away from her home town to try and find something else. But when her older sister is killed and Katey is the one the police call, she is compelled back to her home town, where the tragedy and love story that is her family is played out.

When Roy sees the strange boy running away from the school bus on a school day, he has no idea that soon, he and an unlikely collection of friends will be desperately trying to save an endangered species from near extinction via pancake house...

If this was a movie, it would be Harry Potter And The Logic Of The Diminishing Returns.