“From the time she was a baby in her cradle, Greta had loved the fog.” Thus begins Julia L. Sauer’s utterly haunting Fog Magic. A mountain looms over Greta’s small Novia Scotia village, and behind it lies another village, a village lost in the past, that Greta can only visit through the enchanted gateway of the fog. There, Greta discovers both friendship and mystery, joy and sorrow.

Fog Magic is remarkable not only for its original plot, but for its ability to transport the reader to its entirely unique world. The atmosphere of the book wraps around the reader like the fog itself, blurring the outlines of what is day-to-day and pulling the reader down a path towards the unknown, the longed-for, the enchanted. Readers who follow Greta over the mountain will wish, as she does, to return again and again.

Recommended for readers twelve and up.