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My girlfriend vaguely remembers reading a book when she was in elementary school about a boy and an animal (she thinks it’s a donkey or a horse) traveling through the layers of an unusually shaped world (she thinks like a diamond or a spinning top).

In addition the world is separated by wealth, so the boy is going from the poorest section to the richest section. Have any of you heard of/read a book like this?

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  • When was your girlfriend in elementary school?
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 5:06
  • @FuzzyBoots about the late 90’s to early 2000’s
    – Jetscooters
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 5:09

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Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman.

Though I read the books a long time ago, I'm fairly sure there wasn't a donkey. But there was an animal at one point that could be considered a companion (sort of):

a dragon

Other than that:

  1. The protagonist is a boy
  2. The world is shaped like a layered spinning-top
  3. The second layer and the top layer are separated by class (the second being agricultural and the top being noble).
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  • Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman?
    – John Rennie
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 5:35
  • John Rennie: that's what it sounds like to me (bar the donkey).
    – NeRoboto
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 5:41
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    OK. Your answer could be improved by adding more detail about the story and a link to the Wikipedia article on the book. At the moment there isn't much for the OP to judge whether Atherton is a match or not.
    – John Rennie
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 6:15
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    Thanks for the tip.
    – NeRoboto
    Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 6:33
  • That’s it!! Thank you so much!
    – Jetscooters
    Commented Feb 9, 2022 at 2:15

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