Henry York is sent to live with an aunt and uncle in small-town Kansas when the overprotective parents he has never been comfortable with disappear in South America. At first, his new living situation seems to be a welcome second chance at normalcy. That's before the plaster in the wall of his attic bedroom begins to crack, to reveal the first of ninety-nine small cupboards, which don't open onto the Kansas prairie but into separate worlds.
There's a lot of Narnia in this book, particularly the Wood between the Worlds of The Magician's Nephew, a bit of A Wrinkle in Time, and several sly Easter eggs to The Wizard of Oz.
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