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After Maya’s best friend dies of leukemia the color seems to go out of the world. But the night before she starts her new school, in the new town her family has moved to in this grey world, a tiny fairy lands on her bed and dusts her skin with gold.
That one brush with magic seems to open up an entirely different world for Maya, one that involves the strange kids from next door, odd boys bumping into her in the hall, and maybe enough color to bring the world back into focus.


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Thresholds Magic Next Door Nina Kiriki Hoffman 9780670063192 Books Reviews

It was a wonderful fantasy book! I am ready for the next one right now! I read books on now and just love being able to down load prequels or sequels in under two minutes. Talk about instant gratification!Diana the Booklover.
I enjoyed the book it take you to a different world and this book would be good for any age.
The only thing wrong with this book is that it's too short.

The product description tells all you need to know about the overall plot. But it can't tell you how magical the writing, people, and places are. I enjoyed this immensely. I would love to read a sequel - or two.
Kids enjoyed this
Terrific story! Great characters! Working through some of the Chapel House do's and don'ts.
No, really. The thing is, as a standalone this leaves me unsatisfied. *Why* are the neighbors bound to their roles? What will Maya and, er, her new friend do when she reaches adolescence? Most important, what happens next?

If this is the beignning of a series, I would give it 4.5 to 5 stars; if not, 3 or 4. The characters are likeable, the author does an excellent job showing Maya's emergence from acute grieving, the world-building is interesting and has a lot of potential. I just want more of a conclusion; I hope Hoffman will supply it.
I think I'll make it a point, each time I talk up Nina Kiriki Hoffman, to always start by pimping her grand debut THE THREAD THAT BINDS THE BONES, which is one of my favorite fantasy books of all time. Anywho, this author continues her run of awesome with her latest urban fantasy work, THRESHOLDS, and I say "urban fantasy" but there are intriguing whiffs here of science-fiction as well. As ever, Ms. Hoffman explores themes of self-discovery, of loss and estrangement, and, always, always, of magic.

The Andersen family had just relocated from Catspaw, Idaho to Spores Ferry, Oregon, and it's hoped that the move will ease the pain of the troubled middle child, Maya. It's key to know that Maya's lifelong best friend, Stephanie, had just died from cancer and that Maya is still deeply grieving. Here in Spores Ferry, Maya's fresh start isn't quite working out just yet. Her best friend Stephanie was the big goofy dreamer, and she'd stayed optimistic until the very end. When Stephanie left, Maya couldn't help but be embittered, and she's just so sad all the time. One night, in her second week in Oregon, when a tiny fairy flits into her bedroom, Maya thinks of how much Stephanie would've loved the sight, would've loved to learn that fairies smell like cinnamon and carnation. The fairy cuddles up next to Maya, and falls asleep. Eventually, so does Maya.

Maya wonders about her strange, fascinating neighbors living next door in that apartment complex (the Janus House, it's called). She sees them dressing oddly, playing weird instruments, consuming peculiar foods, conversing in an exotic language, keeping to themselves... so she's curious. Kids from that building attend her new school and Maya learns that these kids are widely shunned in school, that they form their own clique. Maya is faced with the dilemma of mainstream acceptance or social suicide. Not entirely by choice, she gravitates towards the outcasts. It opens up her world. Does it ever...

Her first day of 7th grade, and there's still a leftover scent of fairy dust on Maya, and this gets her approached in the school hallway by a strange boy who doesn't look all that well (Maya in her mind dubs him Sick Boy). Their encounter later culminates in his giving her a "gift," an egg which instantly embeds itself in her wrist.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman's storytelling, always rich and captivating, makes turning her pages as natural as breathing air or walking barefoot on the beach. She doesn't ever really pack her stories with slam bang action (once in a while, yeah), even though things are happening. What she does is craft her characters slowly, constructing layers around them, and she's got beautiful writing. Maya is an ordinary girl, maybe with a real talent for drawing, and it's only an accident that her eyes are unveiled to a world of enchantment. Her grief is a tricky thing to write about, and there's a real chance she may have come off as too melancholy and depressing. It really helps that Hoffman makes the absent Stephanie such a strong appealing presence. I found myself, like Maya, wishing that Stephanie, too, could experience enchantment. We get where Maya's coming from.

The author surrounds Maya with an interesting bunch, and it turns out her secretive outcast friends may be the coolest peeps around. Maya promptly finds herself immersed in their extraordinary world. But, having said that, one of the most well-written characters happens to be a laid back "normal" kid named Travis.

There are malevolent villains here, called the Krithi, but they're shadowy and are only referred to. THRESHOLDS, with the way Hoffman is leisurely setting up her world-building and with the last chapter sort of open ended, feels like the first book in a series, and that's a very good thing. I'm sure the Krithi will make a personal appearance in future sequels. But, for now, the central conflict resides in a girl's wounded soul learning to get on with things. It helps that Maya may have just stumbled onto her very own magic. It's satisfying that Maya, with that egg in her wrist, is rendered equally fascinating to her new friends.

Portals and aliens and magic and weird friends and art and Music Night. "Chikuvny" and "sissimi" and "Kerlinqua," and I'll leave it to you to discover what these words entail. It never gets old, does it, that sense of gratification when reading a story about the mundane running into the fantastical, and the young protagonist empowered and finding that sense of belonging, that sense of self. I can hearken back to years and years ago, when the world was vast and wild and I dreamed real big. Nina Kiriki Hoffman transports me to that place, always and effortlessly.
After Maya’s best friend dies of leukemia the color seems to go out of the world. But the night before she starts her new school, in the new town her family has moved to in this grey world, a tiny fairy lands on her bed and dusts her skin with gold.
That one brush with magic seems to open up an entirely different world for Maya, one that involves the strange kids from next door, odd boys bumping into her in the hall, and maybe enough color to bring the world back into focus.