In Tagâs world, children are disappearing. âYoungersâ who venture Outside are windsweptâvanishing in the swirling snowâTagâs sisters among them. Many have tried to find the lost children; all have failed. And since the Other Times, the Powers That Be seem intent on keeping it that way.
Little remains from those times: snippets of songs, heaps of plastic trash, and a few banned textsâincluding a book of fairy tales.
An unlikely crew of Youngers joins forces: Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; Ren, who will say anything; and Tag, who doesnât appear to have any talent whatsoever. With their dubious skills, the fairy tales, a possibly magic ribbon, and an unwillingness to accept âthatâs impossible,â they set off to
rescue their windswept siblings in this spellbinding fantasy from Margi Preus.