The Book of Story Beginnings Author:Kristin Kladstrup Oscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse in 1914. His sister claimed Oscar had rowed out to sea -- but how was that possible? Nearly a century later, when Lucy Martin moves with her parents to that same Iowa farmhouse, she discovers the strange and dangerous Book of Story Beginnings, and soon Os... more »car himself reappears in a bizarre turn of events that sends the two distant relatives on a perilous journey.« less