Meet Bartholomew Bogglebottom, the unfortunate boy cursed with a name that rhymes with fart, making him the “butt” of everyone’s jokes. Worse, the bullying doesn’t end with the school bell, but goes on 24 hours a day thanks to humiliating posts shared online, driving Barty to unimaginable despair. When a strange girl named Hattie McGee comes to his rescue, Barty is swept into the magical world of Pindora, a pocket world in-between here and there, where just about anything can happen. Barty arrives at the worst possible time: Pindora is in terrible danger. Queen Maab and her tekkerbeetle army have invaded with their machines, cutting down the eternal trees and destroying Pindora’s magic. Pindora’s inhabitants have been waiting for a champion to arrive, the one predicted in the Scrolls of Ing, but could it be Barty? Lacking confidence, Barty must discover what it means to be brave and decide for himself who he is before it’s too late. As Barty builds his army of misfit recruits including a loonicorn named Lasmo, a fierce Zamazoan girl who is in love with Hattie, and a band of old fairy chuffers, he discovers treachery of the worst kind when he discovers Hattie has betrayed everyone.