YA Fantasy. Teens are learning magic and transporting between worlds and Earth using portals. Evil beings are after them. Boy was sent on bus to live with family member, he meets girl neighbor. Read 2011-2015.

[Laurel]

Read sometime as a teenager between 2011-2015-possibly for battle of the books, I’m guessing it was published sometime 2009-2015. I’m remembering bits and pieces everyday. Some of the main things I remember are the main teenager, a boy, is sent on a bus to live with a family member in a different town/city/state by his parent(s). There’s a girl he meets across or down the street from the family members house. They are both then somehow brought into magic worlds, and can transport magically between them, trying to fight/get away from the evil magic. Some things I remember strongly are them building blinds in the woods to hide from the evil, a magic mentor/being with them, transporting to a beautiful world to learn magic and given herbs from an elf-like female, and the town “bullies” in the earth world being somehow magic as well? I think there was mention in the book of the teen saying of the family member he was living with having resemblance to mark twain. Please help!

[Kris]

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