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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100062656449
ISBN-139780062656445
eBay Product ID (ePID)239831408
Product Key Features
Book TitleTombs
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicFantasy & Magic, Horror, Action & Adventure / General, Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, General, Fantasy / Historical
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorDeborah Schaumberg
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2017-938999
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromEighth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisIn 1882 Brooklyn, 16-year-old Avery Kohl fears the mysterious men who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn't. Avery denies the signs in herself, but, like her mother's, Avery's powers refuse to be contained in this debut fantasy., New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Deborah Schaumberg's gripping debut takes readers on a breathless trip across a teeming turn-of-the-century New York and asks the question: Where can you hide in a city that wants you buried? Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn't. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than listening to secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive. Like her mother's, Avery's powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power--or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on "patients"...and no one knows why.