Author: Scott Mebus Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Young adult, Adventure, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780142413074 0142413070 |
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Look. What do you see? Sidewalks, skyscrapers, pigeons? But theres more. More that only twelve-year-old Rory Hennessey can see. More that only Rory can reveal to others. So, look again. What do you see? Layered on our own New York is a spirit city inhabited by warrior cockroaches, malevolent subway trains, kung fu rodents, hungry gargoyles, and children made entirely of papier-mache. Built by history and legend, it?s ruled by the Gods of Manhattan, lions of New York like Peter Stuyvesant and Babe Ruth.
Now everyone is racing to find Rory, the boy who can see. The boy who can change the destiny of New York.
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