Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child somewhere between growing up, watching TV, going to school, and playing on his Gameboy. But when his mother dies suddenly, Bastian's limitless imagination is reborn. Bastian comes across a magical book, "The Neverending Story", in a curious little bookstore. Inspired by the book, Bastian creates an enchanted world called Fantasia, inhabited by dragons, dark knights, and a variety of heroes and villains. His life adventure begins when Bastian projects his Fantasia alter ego, Atreyu, into a battle against the sinister force of The Nothing. This terrible force threatens to destroy Fantasia and its ruler, the Childish Empress. Only Atreyu, a 14-year-old boy from Woodland and an unlikely hero, can save her and find a cure for The Nothing. Bastian's experiences in the real world; like his mourning, his new, sometimes tumultuous life with his father, his troubles with a school bully, and his terror of...