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Downsiders
 
Illustrated by: Greg Harlin
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
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Awards and Nominations

  • ALA Best Books For Young Adults
  • ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

Description

An Entire World Beneath The Streets.

Talon lives Downside, that is, underneath New York City. There is a strict code of secrecy among the Downsiders. However, when Talon accidentally meets a young woman named Lindsay, who is a Topsider (from above the ground), the two worlds inevitably collide. They become friends and love blossoms. The punishment for Talon's lack of discretion could be death. What will happen to them? Will the entire Downsider community be discovered?

How did you come to write this book?

I wanted to write a story about a primitive civilization fighting for its own survival. The idea of putting that society in an unlikely place (under New York) really excited me, because it was a challenge to make something so absurd believable.

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