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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2018 | Middle Grade
Gr 5–8—In this martial arts fantasy, the Empress Dowager has sent 14-year-old Peasprout Chen and her little brother Cricket to Pearl, a city constructed from a porcelainlike substance that enables its residents to rely on skating for transport. Peasprout Chen and Cricket must adjust to a new school, the Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, where they confront cliques and mean kids while studying wu liu, a form of martial arts—style figure skat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2018
Orphan siblings Peasprout and Cricket travel from Shin to the city of Pearl to study wu liu, the "beautiful and deadly art of martial sk...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
