An engrossing middle-grade novel set in a high-fantasy video game world. Wellhall is an immersive online fantasy world full of giants, sorcerers, and elvesand its junior-high-schooler Nicks only escape from real life. Nick and his mom used to play the online video game together before her early-onset Alzheimers forced her to enter an assisted-living facility. At first, Nick seeks distraction in the game, but he soon becomes convinced that his mom is playing the game as a character named Reunne, and dropping him hints about her diagnosis and how he can help her return home. Even as Nick becomes more and more certain that Reunne is actually his mother, Nicks father and his new friend encourage Nick to confront the possibility that the game is just a game, and that he needs to be prepared to say goodbye to his mother as he knows her. . . . [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 368 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers .