How I Became a Writer and Oggie Learned to Drive

Winner of Italy's 2006 Premio Andersen Award: A young writer's fantasy world becomes dangerously entangled with reality

Eleven-year-old Archie and his six-year-old brother, Oggie, are constantly going back and forth between their mother's home and the apartment that their father shares with his girlfriend. To distract Oggie from the turbulence of endlessly bouncing from "Saturn" to "Jupiter" and back again, Archie invents a fantastic story about the Mysterious Mole People. When Oggie's...