Walls Within Walls

Name: Walls Within Walls
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Maureen Sherry
ISBN: 9781705277607

Author: Maureen Sherry

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/20/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Perfect for tweens who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart.

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny who takes the place of their parents, and a school year looming ahead that promises to be miserable.

And then, one day, Brid, CJ, and Patrick discover an astonishing secret about their apartment: The original owner, the deceased multimillionaire Mr. Post, long ago turned the apartment itself into a giant puzzle containing a mysterious book and hidden panels—a puzzle that, with some luck, courage, and brainpower, will lead to discovering the Post family fortune.

Unraveling the mystery causes them to race through today's New York City—and to uncover some long-hidden secrets of the past.

About Maureen Sherry

After twelve years on Wall Street, Maureen Sherry-formerly, the youngest managing director at Bear Stearns-switched gears to earn her Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University, to write, and to tutor at inner city schools. Walls Within Walls-her first book, a mystery for middle school audiences-has been awarded curriculum prizes by the states of Texas and Connecticut, and she was named one of the Best New Voices by the American Library Association. Maureen is also an active board member of numerous charities. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sweet on Books on October 12, 2010

The Smithfork kids are moving on up, moving on up, to the east side (that was for you Jeffersons fan out there). Their dad has hit it big with his video game business and they are leaving warm and cozy Brooklyn for the wilds of Fifth Ave. With their new home comes a nanny, busier parents, less famil......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on December 13, 2012

Walls Within Walls By: Maureen Sherry Historical Fiction 349 pages Finished 12-12-12 Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry is a book about three kids, C.J., Patrick, and Bridget Smithfork, who went from poor to rich. It all started when Mr. Smithfork invented a new video game and the whole family had t......more