"Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood is a typical girl in a world that isn't exactly typical: one where sasquatches helped win the American Civil War, where dragons glide over Route 1 on their way south for the winter and mermaids hunt along the beaches, and where Dark Clouds come for people when they die. To Gracie, it's all pretty ho-hum... until a Dark Cloud comes looking for her little brother, Sam. Her parents pack the family into a used Winnebago and set out on an epic search for a safe place that most people say doesn't exist: the Extraordinary World. It's rumored to lie at the ends of the earth. To reach it, the Lockwoods will have to learn to believe in one another... and to trust that the world holds more possibilities than they've ever imagined. Captured in diary form by an irresistible heroin, My Diary from the Edge of the World is a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of wonders; a gentle family portrait that sparkles with science, myth, magic, and strange beauty of everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice." - Cover.