Elizabeth Kay,
The Divide
Chicken House, 2003.
ISBN: 1 903434 96 3

The Divide is a place in Costa Rica where the waters that run down to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans separate. It is laced with magic, mystery and power. Felix has a terminal heart condition and when he and his parents visit the Divide, on possibly their last holiday together, little does he know that he's about to discover something that will turn his life around. Felix passes out and falls lying exactly halfway over the Divide. When he wakes up, he is in a different world, where mythical creatures are real, and human beings are legend. Will the world hold the cure to his seemingly incurable illness? And even if it does, will he ever be able to get home again? Imaginatively written, and with some thoroughly enjoyable characters, the reader is kept guessing about Felix's fate right up to the end.

RA 10+/IL 9-13
Reviewed by Abbie Todd
Summer 2003