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PROLOGUE

W D M ateo Marino was no ordinary boy. He was an unseen
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boy, which made all the difference. He wasn’t invis-

ible, or anything like that, though sometimes he thought he
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was. Instead, his parents looked straight through him, at the
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G F child they wanted him to be, missing altogether the boy that he
was. And while it was sad, it was also wonderful. For children
like Mateo can have adventures of the most extraordinary kind,
and that’s what happened to him. When he was ten years old, he
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disappeared, as unseen children sometimes do. And that’s when
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N H everything changed, and why I have this tale to tell.

—The Narrator

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