Dust City
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4.7 • 11 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
EDGAR ALLEN AWARD NOMINEE • A hidden world of magic and mystery awaits in a dark and gritty metropolis known as Dust City in this thrilling young adult adaptation of the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood.
“The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm.”—Booklist
When your dad is the wolf who killed Little Red Riding Hood, life is no fairytale.
Everyone assumes crime is in Henry Whelp’s blood. His dad—the so-called Big Bad Wolf—is doing time for the double murder of Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. For years, Henry’s kept a low profile at a Home for Wayward Wolves, just on the outskirts of Dust City—a gritty metropolis known for a black-market, mind-altering dust that’s got its entire population of foxes, ravens, and hominids hooked. But it’s not just any dust the creatures of the underground are slinging. It’s fairydust.
When a murder at the Home forces Henry to escape, he begins to suspect his dad may have been framed. With a daring she-wolf named Fiona by his side, Henry travels to the dark alleyways and cavernous tunnels of Dust City. There, he’ll come face to snout with legendary mobster Skinner and his Water Nixie henchmen to discover what really happened to his father in the woods that infamous night . . . and the shocking truth about fairydust.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his second novel for young readers (and his first for teens), Weston (Zorgamazoo) includes a few familiar fairytale names, like a Jack who nabs a bag of magic beans and "Detective Inspector White" (an audacious, modern Snow White). But this noirish page-turner is no bedtime story. Once, there were fairies whose dust brought health and happiness to Dust City, but 16-year-old Henry Whelp a talking, walking wolf is locked in a world where the fairies have disappeared and a pale form of fairydust is an addictive catchall drug made by powerful corporations. When he escapes juvenile detention to see his imprisoned father, who believes fairies are still around but captured by the corporations, Henry finds a hopeful romance with a wolf named Fiona and becomes dangerously entangled with ruthless mobsters. Clever use of iconic characters and fairytale symbols against a hardboiled backdrop contribute to Weston's distinctive and highly imaginative mise en sc ne. Though Henry knows that not all fairytales have happy endings, his scrappy determination to restore good should have readers avidly following him through the grimy streets of his brutal world. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
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I LOVED this book!!!!! Great story :) its mysterious and keeps you wanting to know more
I loved loved loved it!
It's amazing it's really fun it's mysterious and romantic.