Discover an underground world full of tunnels and mystery in this
middle-grade adventure from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author
of Heroes of the Frontier and Her Right Foot.
What if nothing was as it seemed? What if the ground beneath your feet
was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into
hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious
forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or
eat a banana?
What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it
feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders?
Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out.
When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a
silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway underground, he knows
that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but
to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With
luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure,
they might just emerge as heroes.
In The Lifters, critically acclaimed author Dave Eggers establishes
himself as a storyteller who can entertain and inspire readers of any
age.