Children of the Flying City
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Richly imagined and emotionally resonant, Children of the Flying City is a fantasy for young and old alike. This book gave my heart wings.”
–Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising
“Children of the Flying City feels, at once, timeless and wondrously, gloriously new.”
–Katie Williams, author of Tell the Machine Goodnight
Brought to the flying city of Highgate when he was only five years old, orphan Milo Quick has never known another home. Now almost thirteen, Milo survives one daredevil grift at a time, relying only on his wit, speed, and best friends Jules and Dagda.
A massive armada has surrounded Highgate’s crumbling armaments. Because behind locked doors—in opulent parlors and pneumatic forests and a master toymaker’s workshop—the once-great flying city protects a powerful secret, hidden away for centuries. A secret that’s about to ignite a war. One small airship, the Halcyon, has slipped through the ominous blockade on a mission to collect Milo—and the rich bounty on his head—before the fighting begins. But the members of the Halcyon’s misfit crew aren’t the only ones chasing Milo Quick.
True friendship is worth any risk in this clever, heart-racing adventure from award-winning author and journalist Jason Sheehan. Sheehan weaves together wry narration and multiple points of view to craft a richly imagined tale that is dangerous and surprising, wondrous and joyful.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his children's debut, Sheehan (Cooking Dirty, for adults) offers up an absorbing, action-packed series opener centering deeply resourceful child protagonists. When he was five, Milo Quick was taken from his father, and then handed to "a different man and a different man after that," until "escaping became his vocation." Now almost 13, the presumed-white boy survives on the treacherous streets of congested Flying City Highgate. Part of a gang of child thieves—along with protective, red-haired Jules and pale-skinned, quiet Dagda, who has facial scars—Milo enjoys "all the great and sweeping joys that came from being a child left alone." When a blockade of airships and waterships creates a growing stranglehold on the city, multiple factions home in on Milo as a person of interest: the cruel Total King of Highgate's thieves demands increased tithes from Milo's gang, and the pirates of the airship Halcyon seek to steal him away. As Milo and his friends struggle to stay alive in the increasingly dangerous city, events quickly spiral out of control, revealing Milo's true purpose. An arch, omniscient narrative—by turns brutal and sweet—unspools into an ambitious, wide-ranging story of survival and loyalty set in a vividly described locale reminiscent of Victorian London. Ages 10–up.
Customer Reviews
Awesome Book!
I got Arcane and Mortal Engine vibes from this book! If you’re a fan of either, this is your book!