Into the Sideways World by Ross Welford

Into the Sideways World by Ross Welford follows twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny as they investigate reports of a mysterious animal in their town. It is a children’s novel.

Synopsis

When Willa and Manny hear about a creature prowling nearby, they set out to prove it exists. Following it into a cave on a full moon, they are swept into an alternate world where pollution and conflict were overcome decades earlier, and where even their own families appear happier.

Back home, nobody believes what they have seen. With the threat of global war looming in their world, their search for evidence of the Sideways World becomes increasingly urgent, building into a race against time that forces them towards an impossible decision.