Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2007 by Little, Brown and Company.
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
Subjects
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Earthquakes -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction