The Unfinished City follows the adventures of the young artist Rella PenSword as she faces new fears and learns more about the intersection of her dreamworld and the mysterious city she now calls home.

It is also the newest adventure in the best-selling children's fantasy series Rella PenSword and The Red Notebooks.

From the back of the book:

Rella PenSword is back on Earth One. Nothing looks or feels like it did before her journey through the dreamworld. She misses her new friends, Eurie and Quinn, but she needs to know what happened to her parents.

Before she unpacks a single box, Rella ventures out into an extraordinary and futuristic city filled with inter-dimensional portals, secret technology, and luminous plants. She quickly discovers that the S.N.O.B.S., a swarm of tuxedo-wearing humanoid robots, are invading the city. The SNOBS have been programmed to steal every last one of the sacred Red Notebooks.

With the help of her ingenious friend Q and a mysterious new neighbor, this approximately 9 year old girl (in Earth One years) embarks on a quest that will require more courage and creativity than ever before. Luckily, she also has the help of Mara, Soup, Ives, and Page, who all want to protect the city as much as she does.

Will the Red Notebooks -- the soul of story and imagination -- survive the robot invasion?

Lock into your hover boots, grab your gear, and follow Rella as she navigates The Unfinished City, an imaginative fusion of science fiction and fantasy for children, teens, and adults.

Note on the order of the series: While this is the second book in the Rella PenSword and the Red Notebooks series, it can be read as a stand alone or first. Readers will find connections back to The Wondercurrent. However, this book was also written with new readers in mind. If haven't read The Wondercurrent, you can check it out either before or after you read The Unfinished City.

Fans of the dimensional fantasy like Harry Potter, Neil Gaiman's fantasy books, Kibuishi's Amulet Series, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, C.S. Lewis's portal fantasy, The Chronicles of Narnia, Susan Cooper's young adult adventure fantasy The Dark is Rising, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, The Secret Lake, The Neverending Story, Frank Herbert's Dune, H.G. Wells, and middle grade fiction will find something to love in this positive, hopeful story.

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• Publication Date: August 16, 2021
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• Print Length: 204 Pages
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