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A New York Times bestselling series
A USA TODAY bestselling series
A California Young Reader Medal-winning series

In this riveting series opener, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world before the wrong person finds the answer first.

Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite…

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2 authors picked Keeper of the Lost Cities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I’ll be honest and admit that I gave up on this series after the second or third book, and yet I strongly suspected that my daughter would enjoy them—and she absolutely did. She loves the elvish cities and how keenly they’re described, and the idea that they’re here, somehow hidden on our world, captured her imagination. Oh, and I’m supposed to tell you that Keefe is hilarious.

Keeper of the Lost Cities is the first of ten books in the series of the same name. Who doesn’t love a long-running series with plenty of stories to tell? Shannon is amazing at creating fantastical worlds that intersect with our own. Sophie Foster’s telepathic abilities are her first clue that perhaps she doesn’t quite belong. And when Fitz shows up—a boy who shares her ability—he confirms it. Fitz whisks her away to a land of elves, wonder, and danger. This is a wish-fulfillment book of I-should-be-anyplace-else-but-here that goes terribly wrong when a group of rebel elves proves they are…

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