Secrets of Stone and Sea
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A summer visiting grandma turns into an epic life-or-death middle-grade adventure about twin brothers who must use their wits to keep the god of the sea from sinking their city.
Rise, the ocean rise,
Rise and greet the shore,
With red and bread, he feeds on the dead
And meets you at the door.
In Allison K. Hymas's Secrets of Stone and Sea, twelve-year-old identical twins Peter and Kai are spending the summer in the town of Seaspire when ancient legends quickly pit the boys against a furious sea creature with the power to destroy worlds and sink cities. To prevent it from drowning the entire town of Seaspire, they'll have to solve a set of codes and puzzles with ties to the lost city of Atlantis.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
History and mythology explosively converge in a sibling-centered, summertime New England fantasy by Hymas (The Explorer's Code). When 12-year-old identical twins Kai and Peter Syracuse throw a sneeze-bloodied hot dog into the ocean near Seaspire, Mass.'s purportedly haunted lighthouse, neither expects to awaken a vicious, godlike sea monster. But the easily slighted entity promises to flood Seaspire on the next full moon, leaving the twins little time to banish the monster back to its maritime prison. Setting off on a quest to save the town, Kai and Peter enlist the help of their specialist family: their ancient-weapons-wielding grandmother, Greek archeologist mother, English teacher father, and capable older sister. Poetry, patterns, puzzles, and new powers guide the twins to destinations throughout Massachusetts, where they destroy a series of booby-trapped symbols to contain the monster. Yet impulsive Kai and cautious Peter are continually at odds, threatening the success of their mission. Cheeky humor and familiar lore keep the cinematic scenes moving, while themes of powerful familial bonds, teamwork, and leveraging individual strengths ground the quick-moving plotline. Characters present as white. Ages 8–12.
