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Our protagonist's newborn sister is in ill health; and he discovers a strange man living in his family's deteriorating garage. This is weird, no doubt about it, and I love to see middle grade books get weird; unfortunately, it's not a weird that grabbed me. Something about "the man living in our garage, but it's magical realism" stretched my suspension of disbelief; it's more creepy than magical, although I continue to love Almond's prose, sparse, occasionally evasive, with mundane, realistic dialog and convincingly childish characters. Fine, but didn't blow me out of the water the way Kit's Wilderness did.