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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2015-09-07 17:13:31
It's got to be Finders Keepers
( there was also a tv adaption
)
(Just out of curiosity, did you get the book in Australia?)
Edited by jormis29
rabbitchaser
Since: Apr, 2015
jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012

Looking for an old sci-fi/fantasy kid's book. The protagonist was named Patrick and he discovered the place where all your things go when you lose them. You know how when you can't find your keys or how only one sock of a pair comes out of the dryer? In this book, random patches of our spacetime are connected to this other place, so that when you put your keys down on just the right space on the counter, they fall through into this other country. In that country the connected places are all together in a huge Wall, out of which random junk from our world is constantly popping. Patrick somehow gets summoned to this country to compete on a popular game show with fabulous prizes. I remember a computer is involved somehow; I think that's how Patrick is contacted and maybe how he's transported. It's from the 90s I think. I have no idea of the title or the author. Anybody know this book?