Following the death of her best friend, Stephanie, Maya and her family move to Spores Ferry, Oregon to start anew.  Her new life transitions into a magical world when a fairy flies into her room, and an odd group of acquaintances at school keep hush-hush about the world they live in.  Maya has a strange encounter with one of them who shows her a small, glowing egg, which needs a “host” so it can survive.  He places it on Maya, and it becomes part of her flesh.  Maya keeps this new dimension of her life a secret from her family as she learns more about he portals and thresholds of her now new world.

It’s difficult for me to read alien-fantasy stories, but I would not hesitate to recommend this book to 4-6 graders looking for a fantasy book.   Personally, I found some of the writing immature (“Rowan tapped his fingers…in a rhythm more complex than an ATM code.”) I see that there’s a sequel, “Meeting,” due out August 4.