The House of Power by Patrick Carman
	List Price:   $21.50 Unit Price:   $17.20 You Save:   $4.30 (20%) ISBN-10:   0316166707 ISBN-13:   9780316166706 Publisher:   Hachette; Little Brown Books for Young Readers Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   April 2007 Pages:   330 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   8 to 12 Grades:   3 to 7
Awards
2008  Bluebonnet Award  Nominee/Honoree  2006  Colorado Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Great Stone Face Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
From the 'New York Times' bestselling author of 'The Land of Elyon' comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary new satellite world--created as a refuge from a dying Earth--that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Illustrations. Three worlds are colliding….Power is shifting……Nothing will ever be the same again…..Edgar, a gifted climber, is a lonely boy scaling the perilous cliffs that separate the three realms of Atherton: a humble fig grove, a mysterious highland world of untold beauty and sinister secrets, and a vast wasteland where he must confront an unspeakable danger that could destroy the people of Atherton. When Edgar discovers a book which contains the history of Atherton's origins and ultimate apocalypse, his world - quite literally - begins to turn inside out. 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.