Griffin Smalls was . . . small. Very small. And Brian Swanson, the fourth-grade bully, loved that about him. Things only seem to be getting worse. But then Griffin meets a mysterious figure named Baglire, an outlandish old man with a black pug named Winkles. Baglire takes him to a place he's never imagined, to show him what he never saw about the people he thought he knew so well. As Griffin tries to believe the unbelievable, he discovers a hidden strength that prompts him to do the very last thing he expected.
The Castle in the Clouds is a story about perspective and the power it has to change us.