"The bitter cold night her parents run off leaving her with enough food to last a week, Paulette cries and wonders why they would leave her." With that we enter into Paulette's mysterious world. She will lose herself with enthusiasm into the arms of caring friends and adults, yet we find ourselves full of foreboding as she enters into places that are often too enticing to be good for her. Instead they are realms of danger unto themselves. Paulette can see much into her own life but not enough to make things right. The Mysterious Unraveling of Paulette's World is an adventure into her world and her struggle to plum its mysteries while the real world of loss is holding her in the grip of its shadowy embrace. Yet Paulette is resilient and we have faith she will never truly be lost.