Leven discovers that he must travel to the island of Alder to find the answer that will save the realm of Foo from destruction.

Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.

Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (aka "Lev") lives a wretched live in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. But everything is about to change as he learns about a secret gateway that bridges two worlds - the real world and Foo, a place created at the beginning of time that makes it possible for humans to dream and hope, aspire and imagine. But Foo is in chaos, and three transplants from that dreamworld have been sent to retrieve Lev, who alone has the power to...