![]() Ironically, the teacher turns out to be the one person the children can trust during their most serious crisis. Tension escalates when a teacher sniffs out a bit of the children's predicament and threatens to intervene. New problems (broken plumbing, dwindling food supplies, forced absences from school) crop up as quickly as old ones are solved, and, to complicate matters even more, Alisa seems to be drifting away from reality as she endlessly searches for the door that will lead her into the enchanted world of Narnia. They have good reason to conceal their troubles-while the three oldest children might be sent to their father in another state, the youngest, eight-year-old Alisa (whose father is unknown), would almost certainly be placed in foster care. At 15, Katherine is in charge of the house and her three younger siblings-the children's alcoholic, divorced mother has been in bed for weeks and weeks, and there is no outside adult to whom they can turn for help. ![]()
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