The Divide trilogy is a fantasy young adult novel trilogy by Elizabeth Kay, which takes place in an alternate universe. The three books are The Divide (2002), Back to The Divide (2005), and Jinx on The Divide (2006). The first novel was originally published by the small press publisher Chicken House (now a division of Scholastic), with subsequent volumes published by Scholastic, which also reprinted the first novel. The books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and Dutch. Interior illustrations are by Ted Dewan.
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A thirteen young year old boy, Felix Sanders, has a life threatening heart condition. While his family is vacationing in Costa Rica at a place called the Divide, the point where water flows to both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, he passes out and he finds himself in alternate world, where the Earth's mythical creatures are real and humans are a legend. He sets off on a journey with residents of this world to cure his illness and get home. He befriends a certain creature named Betony who is a tangle child which who later on becomes his life long best friend. Along with Betony and a creature named Ironclaw help him find a cure for his illness.
Snakeweed, a character from the first novel who came from the alternate world, wants to return home, but in order to do so, he needs a spell hidden in Felix's notebook. In order to obtain the spell, Snakeweed turns his parents into stone. The curse spreads, and Felix must head back across the Divide to find the countercharm and save the Earth.
A bully, Rhino, at Felix's school accidentally releases a genie from a lamp Felix obtained from across the Divide. The djinn demands to be returned home and to be given a solid form. Felix, and Betony, from the Divide, return to that world. Meanwhile, inside the lamp, Rhino has found a box that will grant him any of his desires, in exchange for hearing Rhino say the magic words that could destroy both worlds.