The Shadow Sipher
by Laura Ruby
Synopsis
It
was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a
magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train
lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years
later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of
New York the Old York Cipher—a puzzle laid into the shining city they
constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining.
By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest
mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.
Tess
and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr
apartment house—until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed
to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction
means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo
and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher
is real. Which means they have to solve it.
From
National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New
York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Laura
Ruby writes fiction for adults, teens and children. She is the author of the
newly-released YA novel BONE GAP, as well as the Edgar-nominated
children's mystery LILY'S GHOSTS, the ALA Quick Pick for teens GOOD
GIRLS (2006), a collection of interconnected short stories about
blended families for adults, I'M
NOT JULIA ROBERTS (2007), and the forthcoming middle-grade trilogy
YORK. She is on the faculty of Hamline University's Masters in Writing for Children Program.
She makes her home in the Chicago area.
WEBSITE: http://www.lauraruby.com/index.php
TWITTER: @thatlauraruby
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/laura.ruby.714
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Credit: Stephen Metro
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