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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