Book 2007

Atherton

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 2007

Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Orphans
Social classes
Friendship
Earthquakes
Children's fiction
Friendship, fiction

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.