By the time Brand understands the truth, it’s too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history.
He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he’s being used by their cell’s dashing leader, Asher. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war-honest, strong, capable of moral choice. Now driving a taxi provided-like his new identity-by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he’s ever loved. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. full-color illustrations are cinematic in scope, spotlighting the nonstop action.From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War 'Ying has constructed a thrilling genre-bender. City of Secrets captivates the heart and imagination!" -Armand Baltazar, author-illustrator of Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic "A delightful adventure set in an imaginative world built on gears, pistons, and brass. "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
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"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 "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 "An edge of your seat thriller!" -Dan Santat, Caldecott Medal–winning author-illustrator Praise for City of Secrets by Victoria Ying: 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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