num_pages: 375
description: This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life under mysterious circumstances and settled in a rainy corner of Cambridge (in our world).Elliot on the other hand is in search of his father who disappeared on the night his uncle was found dead. The talk in the town of Bonfire (in the Kingdom of Cello) is that Elliot's dad may have killed his brother and run away with the Physics teacher. But Elliot refuses to believe it. And he is determined to find both his dad and the truth.As Madeleine and Elliot move closer to unraveling their mysteries they begin to exchange messages across worlds -- through an accidental gap that hasn't appeared in centuries. But even greater mysteries are unfolding on both sides of the gap: dangerous weather phenomena called color storms; a strange fascination with Isaac Newton; the myth of the Butterfly Child whose appearance could end the droughts of Cello; and some unexpected kisses...
language: English
title: A Corner of White
publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books