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Когда мать Фрэнки умерла, отец оставил ее с сестрой в сиротском приюте в Чикаго. Фрэнки думала, это временная мера: когда папа встанет на ноги, он вновь сможет их забрать. Но ее мечты разбились, когда отец приехал с новой женщиной и сказал, что уезжает из штата. Теперь Фрэнки и Тони совершенно одни — две молодые, никому не нужные девушки, которые хотят выжить. По мере того как угли Великой депрессии разгораются в огне Второй мировой войны, Фрэнки ищет хоть что-то, что поможет ей продержаться среди руин разрушенной Америки. Признаться, даже я пока не знаю, чем закончится история Фрэнки. Но я буду наблюдать за ней, чтобы это…

After the events of The Clockwork Ghost, Tess, Theo, and Jaime don’t know what to think about their legacy—both past and present. They have only one choice: to follow the Old York Cipher to the end.

Уникальный представитель исторического young adult, ставшего лауреатом национальной книжной премии США!
Трогательная и сильная история о том, как человеческий дух стремится воздвигать счастье на руинах экономического краха и войны…
Когда мать Фрэнки умерла, отец оставил ее с сестрой в сиротском приюте в Чикаго. Фрэнки думала, это временная мера: когда папа встанет на ноги, он вновь сможет их забрать. Но ее мечты разбились, когда отец приехал с новой женщиной и сказал, что уезжает из штата.
Теперь Фрэнки и Тони совершенно одни – две молодые, никому не нужные девушки, которые хотят выжить. По мере того как угли Великой депрессии тлеют в огне Второй мировой войны, Фрэнки ищет хоть что-то, что поможет ей продержаться среди руин разрушенной Америки.
Признаться, даже я пока не знаю, чем закончится история Фрэнки.
Но я буду наблюдать за ней, чтобы это выяснить.
По крайней мере, именно так обычно делают призраки.
ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2021

The unforgettable story of two young women—one living, one dead—dealing with loss, desire, and the fragility of the American dream during WWII.

When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary—just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket.

Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans—two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.

And as the embers of the Great Depression are kindled into the fires of World War II, and the shadows of injustice, poverty, and death walk the streets in broad daylight, it will be up to Frankie to find something worth holding on to in the ruins of this shattered America—every minute of every day spent wondering if the life she's able to carve out will be enough.

I will admit I do not know the answer. But I will be watching, waiting to find out.

That’s what ghosts do.

Continuing their efforts to solve the Morningstarr cipher in the aftermath of their home's destruction, the Biedermann twins and their friend Jaime encounter dangerous enemies who are attempting to claim the cipher's treasure

It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher—a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.

Tess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment house—until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.

From National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.

Bone Gap is the story of Roza, a beautiful girl who is taken from a quiet midwestern town and imprisoned by a mysterious man, and Finn, the only witness, who cannot forgive himself for being unable to identify her kidnapper. As we follow them through their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness—a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.

A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are forced to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But one night, a girl named Gurl—a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody—discovers that she can do something much better than fly. She can become invisible. Along with a new friend, a boy named Bug, Gurl begins a quest that takes her on a wild ride through the magical city, all the way to the handsome but lethal Sweetcheeks Grabowski—the gangster who holds the key to Gurl's past . . . and the world's future.