All Aboard The Silver Arrow

Jennifer Jhon is an editor with almost 20 years of experience in teen and parenting media. She helped develop and lead a newspaper for high school students called Teenlink South Florida. She also served as editor of South Florida Parenting magazine and is currently the digital and social media editor for South Florida Family Life magazine. She is a lifelong book lover and has had the privilege of working with the Miami Book Fair, and interviewing its visiting authors, for many years.

Lev Grossman is the author of five novels including the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. A TV adaptation of the trilogy is now in its fifth season as the top-rated show on Syfy. Grossman is also a journalist who spent fifteen years as the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine, where he published more than twenty cover stories. In addition, he has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Believer, the Village Voice, NPR, Salon, Slate, and Buzzfeed, among many others. In The Silver Arrow (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) we meet Kate and her younger brother Tom. They lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane — that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she’s never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow. Kate and Tom’s parents want to send it right back, but Kate and Tom have other ideas — and so does the Silver Arrow. Soon they’re off to distant lands along magical rail lines in the company of an assortment of exotic animals who, it turns out, can talk. Soon, Kate and