I'm not sure if anyone can help me with this, because I have reason to suspect that this book may have been self-published, and few (if any) copies may still exist.

I went to elementary and middle school at a small Episcopalian parochial private school in a small city on the Gulf Coast in the US. My third grade teacher was an elderly woman named Mrs. Camp; unfortunately, due to her age, she's probably passed away by now.

Mrs. Camp had a book that she would read to all of her third grade classes. It was a chapter book that she read out loud to us, and it was called "Hollypoor." I don't know if that's actually how it was spelled, since I don't think I ever saw the title written out.

I remember Mrs. Camp saying she'd gotten the book in Texas, from a friend of hers who'd written it. I remember the book being bound like this, not like a regular book. This is why I suspect the book may have been self-published. For all I know, Mrs. Camp may even have written it herself.

Sadly, I remember very little of the plot. I was in third grade in 1998. I only remember the tiniest pieces, just a few fuzzy memories and a handful of mental images of people and places in the book.

Here's what I think I remember:

• The main character, I think, was a young boy. He awakens to find himself in a strange and unfamiliar land called Hollypoor.

• I think there may have been girl, too. The boy may have met her in Hollypoor, or they may have arrived together.

• Upon arrival in Hollypoor, the boy meets a strange character on a unicycle. I think this character may have had red or orange hair. My mental image of him does, and also has a bit of a "clown-like" aesthetic, although the character was not explicitly a clown. This character acts as the boy's guide through Hollypoor.

• At the end of the book, it's revealed that the boy is dead. The unicycle guy is a sort of a psychopomp, whose role was to lead him through the trials and temptations of Hollypoor as a journey through the land of the dead.

• The book may have had some Christian themes or overtones, but it wasn't totally overt. Then again, it was a Christian school, and we went to church and took religious education classes. Christian themes may not have stood out to me as anything unusual at that time, since it was part of our educational experience.

• I really enjoyed the book a lot.

Does anyone know anything about this? If you think you may have gone to the same school or something, feel free to PM me. I don't want to give geographical details publicly.

This has been a personal mystery for years: what was the deal with Hollypoor? Was it an extremely rare self-published novel, maybe even written by Mrs. Camp herself? This was the late '90s, so it was before online self-publishing made it possible for books to reach a wide audience without traditional print publication.

I fear that the book, which I remember as being very good, may simply be lost to time. I have no idea what Mrs. Camp's first name was, and I'd be surprised if she's still living. My brother graduated the eighth grade last year at the same school, but the faculty has had an almost 100% turnover since I was there.

Any ideas? It was a really enjoyable book, at least to an eight-year-old girl who liked fantasy. It would be cool if I could find it again.