Before we disappear
Call Number
- FICTION HUTC TEEN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2021]
Physical Description
492 pages ; 21 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. HarperCollins.
Summary
Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1908 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Jack Nevin's clever trickery and moral flexibility make him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress, one of the most well-known stage magicians in early-twentieth-century Europe. Jack's steady supply of stolen tricks and copycat sleight-of-hand illusions keep the Enchantress's fame from burning out. Forced to flee the continent, they find a new audience in Seattle at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific World's Fair Exposition. Then a new magician arrives, and Laszlo's act threatens to overshadow the Enchantress. Jack discovers that what makes Laszlo's tricks possible is Wilhelm, a boy whose abilities defy all the laws of physics. Jack and Wilhelm have near-instant connection. Soon Jack has to choose between the woman who gave him a life and the boy who is offering him love. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects
- Magicians > Juvenile fiction.
- Magic > Juvenile fiction.
- Love > Juvenile fiction.
- Gay people > Juvenile fiction.
- Magicians > Fiction.
- Magic > Fiction.
- Love > Fiction.
- Gay people > Fiction.
- Gay teenagers > Fiction.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.) > Juvenile fiction.