Look. What do you see? Sidewalks, skyscrapers, pigeons? But there?s more. More that only twelve-year-old Rory Hennessey can see. More that only Rory can reveal to others. So, look again. What do you see? Layered on our own New York is a spirit city inhabited by warrior cockroaches, malevolent subway trains, kung fu rodents, hungry gargoyles, and children made entirely of papier-mache. Built by history and legend, it?s ruled by the Gods of Manhattan, lions of New York like Peter Stuyvesant and Babe Ruth. Now everyone is racing to find Rory?the boy who can see. The boy who can change the destiny of New York.

When she mysteriously receives a copy of Bulfinch's Mythology and discovers that amazing mythological beings, including Poseidon and Aphrodite, are living normal lives in her very neighborhood, Iris's boring life transforms into something extraordinary. 15,000 first printing.