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Felix is a young boy from our world who has a bad heart condition. He isn't expected to live much longer, so when his parents take him on a trip to Costa Rica over the summer, he assumes this will probably be one of his last chances to enjoy himself. But when he steps over the Divide, where the water that runs down to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans separate, he falls into a different world where it's possible that he could find a cure to his disease. With the help of a tangle-girl named Betony and a Brazzle named Ironclaw, Felix has to hurry and find the cure before his heart disease gets the better of him. He also has to help his new friends defeat some foes of their own.
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%

Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - part earth & part fantasy world
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cure/disease/bioweapon
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - fighting a personal illness/handicap
Is this an adult or child's book? - Kid's book (ages 7-14)

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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