The Shadow Cabinet

by Maureen Johnson

Overview

The thrilling third installment to the Edgar-nominated, bestselling series
 
Rory and her friends are reeling from a series of sudden and tragic events. While racked with grief, Rory tries to determine if she acted in time to save a member of the squad. If she did, how do you find a ghost? Also, Rory’s classmate Charlotte has been kidnapped by Jane and her nefarious organization. Evidence is uncovered of a forty-year-old cult, ten missing teenagers, and a likely mass murder. Everything indicates that Charlotte’s in danger, and it seems that something much bigger and much more terrible is coming.

Time is running out as Rory fights to find her friends and the ghost squad struggles to stop Jane from unleashing her spectral nightmare on the entire city. In the process, they’ll discover the existence of an organization that underpins London itself—and Rory will learn that someone she trusts has been keeping a tremendous secret.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780147517548
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Series:	The Shades of London , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Maureen Johnson (www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com) is the author of nine young adult novels, and is contributor to two short story collections, including the New York Times bestselling Let It Snow. Maureen lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter @maureenjohnson.

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The room was full of a soft December-morning light, a kind of gentle dove-gray color. Stephen was on the bed. Glasses off. Peaceful. Outside, London rumbled by as it always did and presumably always would.
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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Maureen Johnson’s The Shadow Cabinet:

“Creepy, tense and wonderful: Don't expect to put this down once it's begun—but be sure to begin with The Name of the Star.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“The plot…is among Johnson’s finest and incorporates creepy bits of backstory, fascinating historical asides, and truly ghoulish side characters.”—Booklist

“Heavily laced with humor and genuine creepiness, this well-crafted thriller is a winner.”—School Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Maureen Johnson’s The Shadow Cabinet:
A Spring 2015 Kids’ Indie Next Pick!

“Creepy, tense and wonderful: Don't expect to put this down once it's begun—but be sure to begin with The Name of the Star.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“The plot…is among Johnson’s finest and incorporates creepy bits of backstory, fascinating historical asides, and truly ghoulish side characters.”—Booklist

“Heavily laced with humor and genuine creepiness, this well-crafted thriller is a winner.”—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/01/2015
Gr 9 Up—This latest series installment picks up right after the events in The Madness Underneath (Putnam, 2014)—the leader of the ghost police squad, Stephen, has just died. Rory was holding his hand, believing that her touch could keep his ghost nearby, but it's nowhere to be found and she's starting to despair. Then his body disappears. Meanwhile, Rory's classmate Charlotte has been kidnapped by their shared therapist, Jane, who turns out to have a colorful past as a member of a cult obsessed with the Eleusinian Mysteries, mystic rites that blur the lines between life and death. Johnson introduces new villains and expands her world's mythology as Rory, Callum, and Boo try to rescue Charlotte, navigate the Stephen situation, and eventually get caught up in saving the world. Enough background is given that the book could work as a stand-alone, but that would mean readers would be denying themselves the pleasure of the first two titles. Heavily laced with humor and genuine creepiness, this well-crafted thriller is a winner.—Stephanie Klose, Library Journal

School Library Journal

★ 2014-11-04
Transplanted Southerner Rory must once again save London, but this time her foes aren't all completely dead.Upon a less-than-graceful exit from Wexford, her posh London boarding school, Rory is now on the run with the Shades, a clandestine band of police who attend to supernatural phenomena. Stephen, a member of the Shades (and her last kiss), hangs in a precarious state between life and death. With her amplified abilities to both see the dead and possess the power of a mystical stone, Rory could help Stephen. Unfortunately, Jane, a crazed occultist and Rory's ex-therapist, wants to harness Rory's powers and use them to perform the Rites of Demeter in hopes of defeating death and resurrecting two powerful magicians. Rory's London is one where death is but tenuously separated from life, and she must use her abilities to save not only her own friends, but now the city at large. This deftly plotted and richly developed third installment skillfully weaves together the plotlines from its predecessors, creating a carefully and engrossingly built world. Moving away from what could have easily been a predictable, cookie-cutter ghost-busting template in every book, the series has gracefully evolved into a heady mix of ghost story, myth, conspiracies and history.Creepy, tense and wonderful: Don't expect to put this down once it's begun—but be sure to begin with The Name of the Star (2011). (Supernatural thriller. 13-18)

Kirkus Reviews