CITY OF SECRETS AUTHOR FULL

CITY OF SECRETS AUTHOR FULL

Praise for City of Secrets by Victoria Ying: 'An edge of your seat thriller!' -Dan Santat, Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator 'A unique Ghibli-esque city that reveals some of its many mysteries through an action-packed adventure.' -Molly Knox Ostertag, author-illustrator of the Witch Boy trilogy 'Never a dull moment! City of Secrets is a wonderful world full of twists and turns, surprises and intrigue.' -Amy Chu, author of Sea Sirens, Sky Island, the Ana and the Cosmic Race series, and the Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death series 'Victoria Ying's lively and spirited art takes young readers by the hand and plunges them into a steampunk fantasy world.' -Wendy Xu, co-creator of Mooncakes 'A delightful adventure set in an imaginative world built on gears, pistons, and brass. And having a friend is a very good thing when a whole whole evil goon squad is after you Two things quickly become very clear: someone else knows Ever's secret and wants in on it. His avoidance and her pursuit set off an unexpected series of events. Or is he? Ever's lonely existence is upended by when Hannah, the daughter of the building's owner, shows up and spots the orphan in hiding. He's got his job: stay out of sight and protect the safe hidden deep in the maze of the building. Some of the nicer young women who work there give him food on the sly.

Ever is resigned to living on his own in the swtichboard building, where he knows every nook and cranny, and all the cranks and levers that operate the complicated complex. All Ever knows is that what's in that safe protects the city and that his father was killed because he wouldn't give up the secret of the safe. He's the last of a family that's guarded a precious safe-contents unknown-for generations. Can one boy keep a secret-and save a whole city? An action-packed read for middle-grade fantasy and graphic novel fans Ever Barnes is a shy orphan who lives in a puzzle-box building (think an architectural Transformer) that is also a multi level switchboard center, the communications hub of his city. On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to find out what's really going on in this mysterious city of secrets. Lisa and Madame Alexander are each clearly up to something.Įver is beset by a menacing band of rogues looking to unlock the secret he holds-at any cost.Īnd whatever is hidden deep in the Switchboard building will determine all of their futures. She thinks Ever needs a friend, even if he doesn't know it yet.

a rather sharp eye.Įnter Hannah, the spunky daughter of the building's owner.

So does the head of the Switchboard, Madame Alexander. But one of them, Lisa, keeps an eye on the boy. Most of the young women who work at the building's Switchboard Operating Facility, which connects the whole city of Oskar, look the other way as Ever roams around in the shadows. Read the graphic novel that Caldecott medal-winning illustrator, Dan Santat, calls, 'An edge-of-your-seat thriller!'Įver Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building.

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