Interworld, Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves

In the regular world, Joey Harker has no sense of direction. Turns out, all his direction sense lies in between the worlds. Joey is a walker, someone who can cross between the alternate universes that are created every time a vastly important decision is made. All kinds of Joey Harkers (different genders and species) share this gift, and with it the burden of maintaining the balance between the forces of magic and the forces of science that strive to take over all the worlds. * I've been waiting for a Neil Gaiman sci-fi or fantasy book that would be fully appropriate for middle schoolers. (We have his Coraline at Hillview and it is one of the creepiest horror books I've read! Most of his stuff is a little, um, not appropriate for our library. But check it out someday - I think he may be my current favorite author...) Here he's teamed up with Michael Reeves, who does TV, computer games and a lot of Star Wars novels. Put Gaiman's awesome imagination together with Reeves's masterful plotting, and you get a wildly inventive and compulsively readable novel. I'm hoping for a sequel!