Gateway - Hardcover

Shinn, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670011789 ISBN 13: 9780670011780

Publisher: Viking Childrens Books, 2009

Synopsis

As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring--and tells her that "black jade" translates to "Daiyu"--she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th-century China. Almost immediately she is recruited as a spy, which means hours of training in manners and niceties and sleight of hand. It also means stealing time to be with handsome Kalen, who is in on the plan. There's only one problem. Once her task is done, she must go back to St. Louis and leave him behind forever. . . .

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine. Her first novel, The Shapechanger's Wife, was selected by Locus as the best first fantasy novel of 1995. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has lived in the Midwest most of her life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0670011789
• ISBN 13: 9780670011780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280