
P43 / VOLUME 1 / The Red Balloon
The School Fair
In six weeks, a child will die at the school fair. Mara is the only one who remembers. Parents prepare the booths, teachers assign tasks, children look forward to their day. For Mara Ellis, every detail of the program already foretells a tragedy. She wants to warn without terrifying, to persuade without becoming the person everyone avoids in the schoolyard.
The Red Balloon / APODYOPSISBEYOND THE COVER
The School Fair
The novel’s colors become a space.Enter the setting
THE OPENING PAGES / AN EVOCATIONSpaces imagined from the opening pages. Each setting leads back to its book.