Spectacular new fantasy fiction!
I'm plowing through the CYBILS middle grade speculative fiction. There were a few dogs in the pile but I've hit a bit of a hot streak and it's SO much fun to read such imaginative, creative, exciting stories! Check out these beauties! The first one is called "The Shadow Cipher" and it's the first one a series called York by Laura Ruby. I'm relieved that this only the first one because the characters and plot of this one were so interesting, I was really sorry for the book to end! It's about fraternal twins, Tess and Theo, who live with their parents in an old apartment building in New York. The apartment has been in their family for several generations and there is a story about a mysterious treasure that's hidden with lots of clues and ciphers. They connect with a boy who lives in their building, Jaime, who is a computer whiz. He lives with his grandmother, the building's caretaker. Suddenly, they have a very sharp deadline for solvi...