the book is amazingly AWESOME! We read this for our school read aloud, and anytime our teacher closed the book, we would all be like NOOOO and our teacher had to read more from it. So what this book is basically about is that Harvey is sitting on his bed one day, it's a rainy day and then this weird man shows up. He says " Hey kid why aren't you having fun. blah blah blah" And then he takes him to this magical place, where you can "have all the fun" You want. SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT! Your still reading? Ok, I warned you!! Harvey then realizes he gets trapped in a time trap! And every day he spends thee, is one WHOLE YEAR in the real world, Harvey is then determined to get his years back, his whole 30 YEARS back I should say! So you should read this book! TRUST ME!! I put this as my favorite book in my year book!