When Crenshaw shows up on a surfboard, Jackson, an aspiring scientist who likes facts, wonders whether Crenshaw is real or a figment of his imagination. Now they’re facing eviction again, and Jackson’s afraid that he won’t be going to school next year with his friend Marisol. A giant cat named Crenshaw first appeared after Jackson finished first grade, when his parents moved the family into their minivan for several months. Hunger is a constant for soon-to-be fifth-grader Jackson and his family, and the accompanying dizziness may be why his imaginary friend is back. Ever presents white, and Hannah has Asian features.Īpplegate tackles homelessness in her first novel since 2013 Newbery winner The One and Only Ivan. While Ever and Hannah’s adventures come to a satisfying resolution, more are promised in a later volume.
Ying’s full-color illustrations are cinematic in scope, spotlighting the nonstop action. The city of Oskars becomes its own fully formed character as its secrets-like a mysterious map, concealed gears and mechanisms, and a hidden safe-slowly reveal themselves. Ying has constructed a thrilling genre-bender that seamlessly blends hot air balloons, a secret society, an assassin’s guild, a giant robot, and political intrigue without ever feeling overloaded.
#City of secrets series#
This middle-grade steampunk graphic novel features a delightfully constructed world with broad appeal, reading like a remix of Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock’s Four Points series, with a dash of Laura Ruby’s York series and a hint of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2008). They form a friendship and soon find themselves caught up in a vast political conspiracy and in very real danger. When the two run into each other, she is instantly taken with Ever.
Across the city, highborn Hannah, whose father owns the Switchboard, spends her days in comfort. Instructed by his father (who was brutally murdered), Ever guards a mysterious safe housed within the movable building. In the capital city of Oskars, orphan Ever Barnes lives among the gears and levers in the Switchboard Operating Facility, an edifice that can rotate and shift.
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