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    Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City

    By Kirsten Miller

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    "If Harry Potter lived in New York City, he'd have a mad crush on fourteen-year-old Kiki Strike." -Vanity Fair

    There's a secret part of New York City that no one knows about. It's protected by a mysterious group of girls known as the Irregulars, led by the alluring Kiki Strike.

    Inside the Shadow City introduces us to Ananka Fishbein, a regular girl whose life becomes anything but after venturing underground to join Kiki Strike and her friends, the Irregulars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2011
    ISBN9781599907956
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    Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
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    Kirsten Miller

    Kirsten Miller is the author of The Change, a GMA Book Club pick, as well as the groundbreaking YA series starring Kiki Strike. Born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

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    • 4/5
       This spy novel written for girls was excellent. I read it on the recommendation of a patron, and I wasn't disappointed. The "irregulars" are strong girls in their own right. I would recommend this to readers of mystery young adult novels or just girls interested in strong lead characters.
    • 4/5
      Excellent for late primary, early high school reader. Lots of interesting real life tidbits interspersed in the story.
    • 4/5
      Like all good caper stories, this one pits a group of talented strangers against a set of unlikely obstacles and when the dust settles, your strangers have become a team. Kiki Strike and a gang of extraordinary girl scouts take on a exiled princess mean girl, a million rats, a plague-emptied underground city, kidnappers and smugglers gangs. Along with sensible bits of advice for safely navigating your own adventures.This one was fast and fun, and I look forward to reading the rest in the series.I'd give this to younger Allie Carter fans, and to kids who enjoyed the Mysterious Benedict Society.
    • 4/5
      Inside the Shadow City was a action packed spy novel. Kiki Strike is a young woman with a mysterious background who is tough and highly intelligent. Kiki brings together a band of young women of varying talents to create the Irregulars who are operatives in training. This book was well written and original. I loved the interesting bullet points at the end of each chapter ranging from little known facts of the history of NYC to self defense techniques. This book also has characters that are strong female role models. I recommend this book for middle graders who enjoy adventure novels.(less)
    • 4/5
      I've been reading a lot of mystery novels featuring strong, adventurous girls, recently, but this is a standout. The plot is creative, with a number of twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat moments. The author uses unique and quirky details to bring out the character of each girl, and these details bring the story to life. I particularly enjoyed the brief interludes addressing the reader with advice about topics like how to tell if someone is lying. The "irregulars," a band of girls chosen for their unique abilities and adventurous spirit, form a sisterhood that will be the envy of adolescent girls everywhere.A brief caution, there are a few gruesome details that younger girls may find unsettling.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed the twists and turns this book took. Miller has developed a nicely complicated story with lots of adventure.Being an ARC, there were a few times the errors were bothersome, but not enough to ruin the storyline.I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for an interesting mystery/adventure story...and especially if they are looking for the main characters being girls.
    • 5/5
      This was such a good mystery! The book starts off with a girl looking out her window and seeing a giant sinkhole taking up half a park with a small figure waving then jumping in. Without giving it a second thought, the girl grabs a jacket and runs outside to follow the mysterious creature down the hole to go explore. This is definitely a book for the curious, the adventurous, and for people not afraid to break the rules.
    • 5/5
      This book definatly goes under the W-O-W category. Was Out of this World. It was a book I read around seventh grade and I was shocked and happy with the end. But it wasn't just the ending that had me going. The whole time your reading this book, your asking yourself, "Did that really happen!?" and "What happens next?" It's one of thos books that I didn't put down the entire time I was reading it. It's something I'm going to introduce to every friend I have. Good job Kirsten Miller.
    • 5/5
      When I met Kirsten Miller I told her I wished a book like this had been published when I was a kid and I meant it. It is in my top ten of adolescent fiction that promotes "girl-power." If you have a daughter, this book must be added to her shelf. It's also a great book for those of you who just love books about New York.PS--Miller writes the best blog in town. Check it out on the Kiki Strike website!
    • 3/5
      Billed as a female Alex Rider, but it falls far short of that. It started out good, but the characters were stereotypical, especially the bad girls.
    • 4/5
      Very hip and cool chick mystery. I love the characters and how tough they are. Hopefully book 2 will be just as good.
    • 3/5
      Most far-fetched unbelievable book I've read in a while. Good to recommend to tomboy-esque girly girls though. Lots of kids here love it.
    • 5/5
      Completed on 4.20.08Genre: Mystery/AdventureRating: 4.5/5 (I loved it!)This is a modern day Nancy Drew Mystery with strong, smart female characters. The story does not completely come together until in the end, and an evil character escapes setting up a sequel to this fast paced book. It is set in NYC. Kiki Strike is a mysterious girl who loves danger. Kiki recuits four other girls to join the crime fighting groups called the Irregulars. Betty is a master at disguises, Oona is a master forger and computer hacker, DeeDee is a chemist, Luz is mecanical engineer, and Ananka a urban archaelogist and owns one of the most useful libraries in all of NYC. (p.83)The girls led by Kiki Strike set out to discover the underground of NYC called Shadow City. In Shadow City the Irregulars encounter rats and find skeletons, treasures, ancient coins, conterfiet items and many secret doors. Little do the girls know that Kiki is really a Princess looking for a pink diamond ring that belonged to her murdered mother, the Queen. The ring reveals the person responsible for her death. There are many twists and turns to this book, it keeps you guessing and reading Shannnon Burger
    • 4/5
      A group of geeky girls runs around the shadow city of old New York? Scheming princesses plan spy versus spy espionage? This quirky, stylish story is filled with random, yet effective humor. The plot is so purposely absurd as to not even factor in discussions about the book. This is a funny, nicely told character study of a weird group of girls who perhaps are best described as Brownies grown up and gone bad in the underbelly of New York. Readers will learn how to disguise themselves and avoid kidnapping. A fun read recommended for both middle school and high school libraries, this one has cult classic potential!
    • 4/5
      Summary: A mysterious fifth grader has been recruiting from various Girl Scout troops for a secret club of her own.The Take-Away: It's difficult to balance believeable situations with fictional teenagers. All too often, the author credits them with characteristics that aren't quite right, or blatently wrong. Miller gives her group great characteristics with the appropriate backstories so that their extraordinary levels of competency and intelligence don't seem unbelieveable.The premise is discovering a third city below New York City. The girls investigate at night, with various excuses that keep their parents from discovering their true activities. Mapping the city isn't the only thing that Kiki Strike has in mind, but the others don't discover it until the middle of the novel. Again, this technique makes their extraordinary adventure seem plausible.The best part of this book is the practical advice at the end of select chapters. Practical advice about changing your appearance, following someone and being invisible. Just the sort of thing a girl needs to know.Recommendation: Great for anyone in need of some girl power.
    • 5/5
      A secret Shadow City exists deep below New York City. When a sinkhole opens in front of Ananka Fishbein's apartment, she is lured to this underground city by a strange creature that pops its head up from the hole. Her fascination grows with both this new world she has discovered and a mysterious student at her school named Kiki Strike who tells the principal that when she grows up she wants to be "dangerous". People may think young teenage girls are harmless, but Ananka, Kiki, and a few of their remarkable friends band together to explore the Shadow City and fight crime. Great adventure story that shows true girl power.
    • 5/5
      There’s a shadow city beneath the streets of New York, and no one seems to know about it. That is, until a sinkhole occurs in the park across the street from Ananka Fishbein’s house, and she sees a small, blonde elfin girl climb up out of the hole. When she meets Kiki Strike, Ananka’s formerly unexceptional life changes forever. Suddenly she belongs to a world of spies, mystery, crime and adventure, joining an elite group of talented girls hand-picked by Kiki Strike to discover the secrets of the subterranean world.Fast-paced, full of suspense, and complete with Ananka’s notes on what every girl needs to know to become an adventurer. This is a great book!
    • 4/5
      An outcast girl who attends a posh private school in New York City finds out about a secret labrynth of tunnels under the city. She finds other girls all with special, dangerous talents and they setout to investigate. A very fun adventure.
    • 5/5
      This is a book I discovered not from reviews in print journals, but from my fellow kidslit bloggers who simply raved about it. And that is exactly what I am going to do too. It is the story of Ananka Fishbein, who looks out her window one day to discover a giant sinkhole in the park across the street. She decides to explore it and by doing so, changes her life. Inside the sinkhole she finds a fully decorated room and a book that leads her to understand the dirtier and darker side of New York City, including the Shadow City, a warren of connected rooms deep beneath the ground. After her adventure, she meets the strange Kiki Strike, a tiny girl who is dangerous and mysterious. Ananka then finds herself on an adventure with the Irregulars, a group of preteen girls who all have different talents that will enable them to explore the Shadow City. Author Miller has created a riveting book filled with twists and turns, betrayals and lifelong friendships, populated with preteen girls who have real adventures. It is an amazing triumph to create female preteen characters who care about both style and explosives. This is a girl book that rocks, that captures exactly what girls really want: to be dangerous and to have adventures, but not be boyish in the least. The writing is witty, vivacious and pure fun just like the characters. Miller has also added guides throughout the book on subjects like detecting a liar, snakebites, and following someone without being found out. Run and get this for any brave preteen girl who has spunk and a thirst for adventure. It is books like this that make me sigh about the lack of real modern adventure books for girls. Tamora Pierce is my hero for featuring girls in her stories that are just as tough and strong as the boys, but we have needed a modern story that features great female characters as well. Kiki Strike fills that void, and does it with great style.
    • 5/5
      A total page-turner: the writing is sharp, the characterization interesting, and the setting fascinating. Really, really nicely done.
    • 3/5
      I really wanted to like this book. It sounds funny and light and interesting. It's another book about spies, except these are normal, everyday kind of girls who learn how to become spies by following Kiki Strike. Except that's not really how it happens. Kiki puts together a group of gifted girls, a chemistry wiz, a forger, the daughter of costume designers who makes great disguises, etc, and our main character, who seems normal. They do learn from Kiki, and at the end of each chapter is a little summary of what our main character has learned throughout the years, which is sometimes a little foreshadowing into the next chapter. Those were interesting most of the time. The story wasn't bad, it's a great premise and the whole 'Shadow City' thing is pretty awesome, but it felt like something was missing.