Critical Praise forThe Memory Thief
“This expertly crafted story thrums with magic, love, and tense action…”
— Booklist, starred review
"A bighearted adventure.” — Kirkus
“Sure to captivate young readers for years to come.” — B&N Reads
“… will speak to anyone who's ever found comfort in a book.” — BCCB
“In this novel of ghosts, memory, and story, Anderson weaves components of children’s literature mainstays into a dreamlike first-person narrative.”
— Publishers Weekly
The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened.
When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting—though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits.
Still, the more time she spends with Elias—with his questions, his rebelliousness, his imagination that is so much bigger than the box she has made for herself—the more Cassie thinks that even in a world that seems broken beyond repair, there just may be something worth believing in.