maps young Sophia uses to navigate such unpredictable landscapes. I love this book.and#8221 and#151 Nancy Farmer, National Book Award-winning author of The House of the ScorpionĪnd#147 I loved it! So imaginative!and#8221 and#151 Nancy PearlĪnd#147 An exuberantly imagined cascade of unexplored worlds, inscribed in prose and detail as exquisite as the. It is a remarkable debut.Īnd#147 I think The Glass Sentence is absolutely marvelous.and#160 Itand#8217 s the best book Iand#8217 ve read in a long time.and#160 The world-building is so convincing, the plot so fast-moving and often surprising, and the ideas behind the novel so completely original. The Glass Sentence plunges readers into a time and place they will not want to leave, and introduces them to a heroine and hero they will take to their hearts. But even as Sophia and Theo try to save Shadrackand#8217 s life, they are in danger of losing their own. Together with Theo, a refugee from the West, she travels over rough terrain and uncharted ocean, encounters pirates and traders, and relies on a combination of Shadrackand#8217 s maps, common sense, and her own slantwise powers of observation. And Sophia, who has rarely been outside of Boston, is the only one who can search for him. Life with her brilliant, absent-minded, adored uncle has taught Sophia to take care of herself. and#160 Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on an urgent mission. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New Worldand#151 a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. She had no idea they were so dangerous.īoston, 1891.
She has only seen the world through maps. One of Publishers Weeklyand#8217 s Best Summer ReadsĪnd#147 Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book.and#8221 and#151 Megan Whalen Turner, New York Times best-selling author of A Conspiracy of Kings
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