Eagar has a beautiful way with words. Her complex internal dialogues and descriptors allow readers to visualize, in minute detail, every physical and mental aspect of each character and their current surroundings. --Kirkus Reviews Eagar continues to show her talents as a writer in her third novel, which is rooted in Miranda's internal struggles. Readers hoping for a zany creature caper should look elsewhere, but those who appreciate introspection will be absorbed by Miranda's circling thoughts, worries, and anger, and what turns out to be an eye- opening adventure marked by danger and the fantastic. --Booklist Eager (Race to the Bottom of the Sea) crafts an appealing novel about 12-year-old Miranda Cho--a straight-A student, compulsive list maker, and unlikely student body president.Eager makes a case for belief--in the uncanny, sure, but most of all in the people one loves. --Publishers Weekly The message of acceptance toward people is a sound one, though, and readers with sneaking suspicions about what lurks in the woods will relish the confirmation. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books A spiraling, effusive third-person narration amplifies both the wildness of Miranda's thoughts and the awe-inspiring, almost mystical forest.

an engaging yarn that blurs myth and reality. --The Horn Book.