The Midnite Our (Half Past Peculiar #2)

Lost in a strange dimension where up is down and left is right, the Fetch twins must find a way to make it back to their own world in this one-of-a-kind illustrated novel from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel team of Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs.

Twins Atticus and Esmeralda Fetch are the best pet finders in Thorns Hollow -- a town where people have a lot of pets, and those pets often get lost. But when a lost dog named Maxwell led them to an old, Victorian house on the edge of town, the twins found their world turned upside down. This creepy house contained a portal that leads to a whole other world -- a world where mythical creatures like trolls, fairies, and dragons are real. While trying to track down the lost dog's owners, the twins found themselves stranded in this world called "the Sideways" with no way to get back.Now Maxwell, Atticus, Esmeralda, and a strange girl they've encountered in the Sideways will have to try to find a way to return to their world. Just who is this girl, and how does she relate to the Fetch twins? And who is the mysterious "hunter" who is chasing them down at every end? The answers are stranger than anyone could have imagined.Using a mix of prose, artifacts, and comics, the Eisner Award-nominated and New York Times bestselling team of Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen creates a fantasy-based middle-grade series that's simultaneously eerie, very funny, and wondrously imaginative. With a mix of gorgeous text pages, painted artifacts, and beautiful comics, this one-of-a-kind novel is sure to spark the imaginations of readers everywhere.

Derek Fridolfs is a New York Times bestselling author. With Dustin Nguyen, he cowrote the Eisner-nominated Batman: Li'l Gotham. He's also written and worked on such comics series as Batman: Arkham City Endgame with Paul Dini, Detective Comics, Legends of the Dark Knight, Adventures of Superman, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Zatanna, JLA, Justice League Beyond, and comics based on the cartoons for Adventure Time, Regular Show, Clarence, Pig Goat Banana Cricket, Dexter's Laboratory, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Titans Go, Looney Tunes, and Scooby-Doo Where Are You! He's written several chapter books for Capstone based on the Justice League.



Dustin Nguyen is a New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning American comics creator. His body of work includes Batman: Li'l Gotham, which he cocreated, and numerous DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Boom! titles along with DC Comics Secret Hero Society and Image Comics' Descender and Ascender, both of which he cocreated. He lives in California with his wife, Nicole; their two kids, Bradley and Kaeli; and dog, Max. His first children's picture book, titled What Is It?, was written by his wife (at the age of 10) and is their first collaboration together. He enjoys sleeping and driving.