{"id":6723,"date":"2020-05-05T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:03:48","slug":"top-ten-tuesday-may-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/top-ten-tuesday-may-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Tuesday | May 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n

Top Ten Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0is a Bookish Meme hosted by\u00a0That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>, and this week’s theme is THINGS I’D HAVE AT MY BOOKISH PARTY!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So… I wasn’t quite sure what to do with this week’s theme. I decided to do MY FAVORITE READS OF 2020 (SO FAR!)<\/strong>! Which is… uh… not the theme at all, but whatever! We’ll have fun with it! Books this week are listed in order of publication date, because it turns out it was really hard to narrow it down to ten and I couldn’t pick favorites from there!<\/p>\n

And now without any further ado, here’s this week’s Top Ten Tuesday!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\"TopThe Shadow Cipher<\/strong> by Laura Ruby<\/a>
Series:<\/strong> York #1<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> May 16, 2017 by Walden Pond Press<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Alternate History<\/a>, Contemporary<\/a>, Middle Grade<\/a>, Mystery<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 476
Add to <\/strong>Goodreads<\/a>

It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher\u2014a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.
\nTess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment house\u2014until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.
\nFrom National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t