author: Avi
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2014/02/24
date added: 2014/02/24
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
This is a reprint of a 1993 graphic novel by Avi. It involves a kidnapped girl, a blind schemer who talks to pigeons and a mysterious subway token.
In a preface that is more text than pictures, we learn about the creatures that supply power to the city of New York, the Kurbs. In a sort of game they hide a token in the city that must be found and returned to the Kurbs, or they turn off power to the city. A scheming man named Underton attempts to steal the token and ends up blinded. The story then begins years later when a young boy finds the token. He is pursued by Underton, a young girl named Sarah and Sarah's mother, who has been looking for the token and Sarah for years.
There are the mysterious discoveries around the token, a hair-raising flight over the streets of New York, and the possibility that the Kurbs won't get the token back and put the city into a deep freeze. I liked it, and the art was good, but Sarah and her mother look a bit alike and it's easy to get them confused.
I was given a copy of this graphic novel by Scholastic and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this graphic novel.
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