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Wall & The Wing

by Laura Ruby
Wall & The Wing

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ISBN13: 9780060752552
ISBN10: 0060752556
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In one vast and sparkling city, everyone can fly.

Almost everyone.

A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are sentenced by a trick of nature or fate to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But one night, a girl named Gurl — a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody — discovers that she can do something much better than fly.

She can become invisible.

This amazing power will help her uncover the secret mysteries of the city. But even with her newfound talent, Gurl can't seem to hide from a giant rat man with a taste for cats, a manipulative matron with a penchant for plastic surgery, and a belligerent boy named Bug.

Gradually Gurl learns to control her power and teams up with Bug to figure out who and what she is. Their quest will take them on a wild ride through this magical city, where they'll confront chatty birds and mind-bending monkeys, an eccentric genius with a head full of grass and a pocket full of kittens, and the handsome but lethal Sweetcheeks Grabowski — the gangster who holds the key to Gurl's past...and the world's future.

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"This novel flips reality on its side and sends readers up into the air and down into the bowels of the city. Witty and ironic, Ruby's sharp writing propels the story to an exhilarating climax." VOYA (Starred Review)

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"Fast-paced wackiness told with humor, often black, that will have young readers giggling even as they cheer." School Library Journal

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"It takes time to sort out the large cast, but readers who persevere will be happy they did and look forward to the upcoming sequel." Booklist

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"The last chapters of Ruby's sophomore effort are excellent, but few will make it through this sluggish, overlong fantasy adventure. Less than the sum of its imaginative parts, this misses the high mark set by her Lily's Ghosts." Kirkus Reviews

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"No need to compare to Harry Potter; with The Wall and the Wing, American fantasy takes full flight." Esme Raji Codell, author of Educating Esme and The Diary of a Fairy Godmother

About the Author

Laura Ruby is a Chicago-based writer, the author of Lily's Ghosts. A Parents' Choice Silver Honor winner and a nominee for the Edgar Award for best juvenile mystery, Lily's Ghosts was also selected for Chicago Public Library Best of the Best and the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age lists. Laura also writes short fiction for adults.

As a child, she liked to ask people nosy questions such as "If everyone in the world were either a jerk or a creep, which one would you be?" and "Would you rather have the power of invisibility or the power to fly?" She discovered that there are an awful lot of jerks flying around this world and not nearly enough invisible creeps. The Wall and the Wing is her tribute to them all.


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ISBN:
9780060752552
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
03/01/2006
Publisher:
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pages:
327
Height:
8.48 in.
Width:
6.42 in.
Thickness:
1.08 in.
Age Range:
10-14 and up
Grade Range:
from 5
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2006
UPC Code:
2800060752554
Author:
Laura Ruby
Subject:
Cats
Subject:
Orphans
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Fantasy
Subject:
Orphanages

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