Golden Specific, The: 2 (The Mapmakers Trilogy) - Softcover

Grove, E., S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014242367X ISBN 13: 9780142423677

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2016

Synopsis

The events of The Glass Sentence transformed the world, as well as the life of fourteen year old Sophia Tims. Since then she's continued searching for clues to her parents' disappearance, combing Boston's archives and libraries. Across the country, her friend Theo is searching, too. When Sophia learns that her mother's diary and the story of her parents" fate is in a distant archive, she makes a split second decision and sets off with an almost complete stranger on a sea voyage to a place where she knows no one. Weeks later, Theo returns to Boston and immediately sets off on a new voyage of his own. This book is written in alternating voices, studded with extracts from Minna Time's diary, and filled with all manner of wonders, including startlingly new kinds of maps.

About this title

About the Author

S. E. Grove (segrovebooks.com) is a historian and world traveler. She spends most of her time reading about the early modern Spanish empire, writing about invented empires, and residing in Boston. Follow S. E. Grove on Twitter @segrovebooks.

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The Golden Specific

By S. E. Grove

Penguin Young Readers Group

Copyright © 2016 S. E. Grove
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-14-242367-7

RAVES FOR THE GLASS SENTENCE

A National Indie Bestseller

A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection
A Kids' Indie Next Top Ten Book
A Publisher Weekly Flying Start
A Washington Post Summer Book Club Pick
A Junior Library Guild Selection
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Reads
An Amazon Editor's Pick, Summer 2014


STAR “Brilliant in concept, breathtaking in scale and stellar in its worldbuilding; this is a world never before seen in fiction . . . Wholly original and marvelous beyond compare.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

STAR “A thrilling, time-bending debut . . . It’s a cracking adventure, and Grove bolsters the action with commentary on xenophobia and government for hire, as well as a fascinating system of map magic.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

STAR "A mind-blowing debut . . . The bookmaking behind this first novel is as elegant as the maps within it." —Shelf Awareness, starred review

“I loved it! It's filled with fabulous, interesting ideas. Amazing!”—Nancy Pearl, NPR

"I am in no doubt about the energy of S. E. Grove as a full-fledged, pathfinding fantasist. The Glass Sentence is named “Book 1.” I look forward to the next installment to place upon the pile. Intensely." —Gregory Maguire, The New York Times

"A page-turner .  . So imaginative."—Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal

“Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book.”—Megan Whalen Turner, New York Times best-selling author of A Conspiracy of Kings

“Absolutely marvelous [and] completely original. I love this book.”—Nancy Farmer, National Book Award-winning author of The House of the Scorpion

“Exuberantly imagined [and] exquisite."—Elizabeth Wein, New York Times best-selling author of Code Name Verity

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Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014242367X
• ISBN 13: 9780142423677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528