Book Talk and Signing with North Carolina Middle-Grade Author Alan Gratz

North Carolina children’s author Alan Gratz will be discussing his latest middle-grade book, The League of Seven (Starscape, hardcover, $16.99), at Fiction Addiction on Monday, December 1st, at 4:00 pm.

Tickets are $10 each for adults. Each ticket can be redeemed toward a purchase of the author’s books prior to or at the event, and includes one admission pass to the event. Children ages 15 and under are free, but please RSVP. Tickets may be purchased online, at the store, or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

Young Archie Dent knows there really are monsters in the world. His parents are members of the secret Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous giants called the Mangleborn. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the giant monsters have been all but forgotten — until now. Evil genius Thomas Alva Edison and his experiments in the forbidden science of electricity have awakened Malacar Ahasherat, the Swarm Queen, in the swamps of Florida.

When the monster brainwashes Archie’s parents and the rest of the Septemberists, it is up to Archie and his loyal Tik Tok servant, Mr. Rivets, to assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world: the League of Seven.

From critically acclaimed author Alan Gratz comes The League of Seven, the action-packed first book in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy set in an alternate 1870s America, where electricity is a dangerous and forbidden science, Native Americans and Yankees live side by side as a United Nations, and evil lurks in the shadows beyond the gaslights.