A review by bookgirl4ever
The Whatnot by Stefan Bachmann

4.0

Fast forward years after The Peculiar (because time in our world is different from that in the Old Country)... Hettie is stuck in the Old Country wandering towards a cottage yet never seems to reach it. Meanwhile, in England, all faeries have been banished and a war with the faeries is imminent. Pikey is a boy, who after an encounter with a faery, is left with a mysterious eye that lets him see odd visions from elsewhere. He hides his eye under an eye patch so that the Englanders won't send him away. But one day he is caught and sent to a prison where he neighbors a crazy old lady with a similar eye who is rumored to be taken care of by the faeries. Suddenly Pikey starts to see a Peculiar through his faery-touched eye. This Peculiar just happens to be Hettie. Once Bartholomew, much older now learns of Pikey's communication with his sister, he sets Pikey free and they begin their quest to enter the faery world to bring Hettie home.

Love this vivid world that Bachmann created.

Middle school.