City of Orphans by Avi
The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno's boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies--but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection. Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love.Avi has published more than seventy books. Winner of many awards, including the 2003 Newbery award for Crispin: the Cross of Lead, two Newbery Honors, two Horn Book awards, and an O'Dell award, as well as many children's choice awards, Avi frequently travels to schools around the country to talk to his readers. Among his most popular books are Crispin: The Cross of Lead, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Nothing But the Truth, the Poppy books, Midnight Magic, and The Fighting Ground. His most recent books are Ragweed and Poppy, Gold Rush Girl, The End of the World and Beyond (sequel to The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts), and the somewhat autobiographical Catch You Later, Traitor. Avi lives in Clark, Colorado, with his wife. He invites you to visit him online at avi-writer.com and on Twitter @avi3writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416971023 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416971025 |
| Title | City of Orphans |
| Author | Avi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books |
| Year published | 2011-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Land of Enchantment Book Award (Young Adult) 2013, Winner of Colorado Book Award (Juvenile Literature) 2012, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2014, Short-listed for Nutmeg Book Award (Teen) 2014, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2013, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Junior Book) 2013, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2013, Short-listed for Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award 2013 |
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