brimble reviewed on + 11 more book reviews
From inside the dustjacket:
Suddenly Brick was lying in the sun on thick, green grass, surrounded by yellow flowers. A few minutes before, at midnight, he'd been on his bed in the grimy Belleview ward, trying to imagine this very place.
The five boys and girls in Ward Nine always played their "traveling" when the lights were out. They'd close their eyes and take turns pretending, outloud, that they were somewhere else somewhere wonderful, far away from the hospital where they were called "incurables." Brick had been concentrating fiercely on a meadow. Now, somehow it had become real.
That's how it all begins in this wonderful story about a boy who learns to teleport because he believes that people can do anything if they want to and try hard. When Brick returns to the others, with a dandelion for proof, the children begin to plot an escape. None of them can walk, but Brick had found that he could move around in the magic place had discovered and wonderful things were growing there. Surely they can survive. Sure they can make a new life
But the hospital has been condemned, and the five are about to be separated. Can Brick transport them, one by one, in time? Suspense mounts, as the anxious, determined friends risk everything to find a better place in time and space.
It is only a blink of an eye, plus a lot of willpower and belief, into Alexander Key's magic meadow with its bubbling stream, empty log cabin, and new chance to live with nature a more peaceful, more possible place. Everyone who reads about it will wish he or she could go there too, along with Brick and Charlie Pill and Diz Dobie and Princess and Lily Rose and their friend, Nurse Jackson.
Suddenly Brick was lying in the sun on thick, green grass, surrounded by yellow flowers. A few minutes before, at midnight, he'd been on his bed in the grimy Belleview ward, trying to imagine this very place.
The five boys and girls in Ward Nine always played their "traveling" when the lights were out. They'd close their eyes and take turns pretending, outloud, that they were somewhere else somewhere wonderful, far away from the hospital where they were called "incurables." Brick had been concentrating fiercely on a meadow. Now, somehow it had become real.
That's how it all begins in this wonderful story about a boy who learns to teleport because he believes that people can do anything if they want to and try hard. When Brick returns to the others, with a dandelion for proof, the children begin to plot an escape. None of them can walk, but Brick had found that he could move around in the magic place had discovered and wonderful things were growing there. Surely they can survive. Sure they can make a new life
But the hospital has been condemned, and the five are about to be separated. Can Brick transport them, one by one, in time? Suspense mounts, as the anxious, determined friends risk everything to find a better place in time and space.
It is only a blink of an eye, plus a lot of willpower and belief, into Alexander Key's magic meadow with its bubbling stream, empty log cabin, and new chance to live with nature a more peaceful, more possible place. Everyone who reads about it will wish he or she could go there too, along with Brick and Charlie Pill and Diz Dobie and Princess and Lily Rose and their friend, Nurse Jackson.
