Suddenly it seems as if the whole gloomy city is searching for Reuben and his new possession. It turns out the Smoke himself is looking for the watch. Hoping the watch will free him and his mother from their impoverishment, he foolishly visits a clockmaker. Something terrible.”Īvoiding the Directions one day on a particularly narrow street, Reuben finds hidden between bricks a beautiful ancient watch that can make the holder invisible.īy turning the hand a certain way, Reuben is able to completely disappear, but only for a short amount of time. Kids think he may be something other than human: “Exactly what no one knew,” Stewart writes. The city is governed by a strange authoritarian figure known as the Smoke. Patrolling the city are quartets of suited men called the Directions, who look out left, right, ahead and behind. They live in a grim apartment in a dismal block in a failing, gloomy city called New Umbra. He might not be noticed by anyone, except that he has a mother, whom he adores and who adores him. Reuben Pedley prefers not to be seen by people at all. The latest novel by Trenton Lee Stewart, the author of the beloved Mysterious Benedict Society series, boasts a peculiar timepiece and an incredibly shy boy. Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown & Company.
THE SECRET KEEPERS By Trenton Lee Stewart.
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