Can you imagine being the adopted only child of two orphans?  Isabelle Beans knows it’s very hard not to know who she is and who she came from, but it explains a lot.  Like why she doesn’t have any friends, why she seems to get into trouble, why she’s lonely, why she has trouble fitting in.  After being sent yet again to the principal’s office, she falls into a closet and travels down through a tunnel.  Here is where the story seems a bit like Alice in Wonderland and Hansel and Gretel.  Isabelle comes to another world where she encounters children running away from home, afraid that the witch will come and eat them. They live in a camp, much like Never Never Land.  Instead of running away from the witch’s direction, Isabelle runs towards the witch’s house.  Instead of encountering a typical witch, she finds an older woman who gathers herbs,  medicinal plants and roots for the villagers’ ailments.  This couldn’t be the wicked witch could it?  Is Isabelle a witch, too, because she understands this woman and her herbs?  This is a place where she finally feels at home.   A confrontation between the runaway children and the woman answers some questions, but asks many more which Isabelle needs answered.  An interesting adventure sure to keep the reader wondering.  Those who love fairy tales will enjoy this book.