Downsiders by Shusterman, Neal [Paperback]

Description: History and urban folklore are wittily combined in Shusterman's (The Eyes of Kid Midas) well-wrought fantasy, centering on an alternative society that thrives undisturbed in the subterranean recesses of New York City. Despite stringently enforced rules against mixing with "Topsiders," 14-year-old Talon sneaks aboveground into an Upper East Side townhouse. There he meets Lindsay, also 14, whose self-absorbed, divorced mom has left her with her equally inattentive dad "for all eternity." The friendless girl quickly forms a bond with the pale, otherworldly boy, and when he finds her again, she eagerly goes with him to tour his underground universe. However, Lindsay's presence, as well as some historical information she unearths, are as threatening to the Downsiders as the excavations for her father's West Side aqueduct project. Amidst the thrills and insider humour (Downsiders eat throgsneck soup and have hunted sewer alligators to extinction), Shusterman offers a crisply written coming-of-age story with a message worth pondering: "Better that the truth be like the moonAa bright sphere only showing half of its face at a time, leaving the rest to be uncovered fragment by fragment, in its own proper time." Ages 10-up. (June) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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EAN: 9781416997474

UPC: 9781416997474

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Book Title: Downsiders

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Item Height: 0.7 in

Topic: Transportation / Railroads & Trains, Fantasy / General, General, Social Themes / Friendship, Lifestyles / City & Town Life, People & Places / United States / General

Publication Year: 2009

Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Item Weight: 7.6 Oz

Item Length: 8.2 in

Author: Neal Shusterman

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback