Each Friday I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Nov. 11, 2022 is Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger.
Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath — someone who can read minds. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain. Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere, and who can also read minds like her. She discovers there’s somewhere she does belong, and that staying with her family will put her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from what she has ever known. Keeper of the Lost Cities was the winner, in 2017, of the California Young Reader Medal, in the Middle School/Junior High category.
