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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
City of bones
ISBN:
9781416914280

9781428739994

9781439569672

9781416955078

9781481455923

9781442499652

9781606863619

9781480614963

9781481456807

9781406307627

9781481470308

9781442485389

9781534431782
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication:
New York : M.K. McElderry Books, 2007.
Physical Description:
485 pages ; 24 cm
Series title(s):
Number in series:
BK. 1.
General Note:
"Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division ; Manufactured in the United States of America ; Book design by Mike Rosamilia"--Title page verso.
Contents:
pt. 1. Dark descent. -- Pandemonium -- Secrets and lies -- Shadowhunter -- Ravener -- Clave and covenant -- Forsaken -- The five-dimensional door -- Weapon of choice -- The circle and the brotherhood -- pt. 2. Easy is the descent. -- City of bones -- Magnus Bane -- Dead man's party -- The memory of whiteness -- The Hotel Dumort -- High and dry -- Falling angels -- The midnight flower -- The mortal cup -- Abbadon -- In rats' alley -- pt. 3. The descent beckons. -- The werewolf's tale -- Renwick's ruin -- Valentine -- Epilogue: The ascent beckons.
Summary:
When 15-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know ...
Reading Level:
Ages 14 up.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 5.0.

9-12 5.3 30.0 Reading Counts RC 41048.

114414. Accelerated Reader AR 5.0 UG 20.0.

Reading Counts High School 5.3 30.
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