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Vita, Silk, and Arkady all present white Samuel, a Shona immigrant from Southern Rhodesia, is the only primary character of color. The city never comes to life the way the human characters do (Vita, for instance, вЂњhad six kinds of smile, and five of them were realвЂќ) but often does have a tangible presence, and notwithstanding VitaвЂ™s encounter with a (rather anachronistically styled) вЂњLatinaвЂќ librarian, period attitudes toward race and class are convincingly drawn.

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Silk, a light-fingered orphan, aspiring aerialist Samuel Kawadza, and Arkady, a Russian lad with a remarkable affinity for and with animals, all join her in a series of expeditions, mostly nocturnal, through and under Manhattan. Laying out an elaborate scheme in a notebook that itself turns out to be an integral part of the ensuing caper, Vita, only slowed by a bout with polio years before, enlists a team of helpers. Rundell sets her iron-jawed protagonist on a seemingly impossible quest: to break into the ramshackle Hudson River castle from which her grieving grandfather has been abruptly evicted by unscrupulous con man Victor Sorrotore and recover a fabulously valuable hidden emerald. (Illustrations not seen.)ДЄ sly, side-splitting hoot from start to finish.ДЄ Prohibition-era child enlists a gifted pickpocket and a pair of budding circus performers in a clever ruse to save her ancestral home from being stolen by developers. A climactic clutch culminating in a magnificently destructive display of fireworks leaves the Coggin sibs well-positioned for bright futures.

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Better yet, in Boz she has created a scene-stealing force of nature, a free spirit whoвЂ™s never happier than when heвЂ™s stirring up mischief. Teele spins her adventure around a sturdy protagonist whose love for his little sister is matched only by his fierce desire for something better in life for them both and tucks in an outstanding supporting cast featuring several notably strong-minded, independent women (Page, whose glare вЂњwould kill spiders dead,вЂќ not least among them). The hot pursuit of malign and indomitable Great-Aunt Beauregard, the CogginsвЂ™ only living relative, forces all three to leave the troupe for further flights and misadventures. Alas, the budding engineer barely has time to settle in to begin work on an experimental circus wagon powered by chicken poop and dubbed (with questionable forethought) the Autopsy. Where? To the circus, of course.ДЇortunately or otherwise, John and 6-year-old Page join up with Boz-sometime human cannonball for the seedy Wandering Wayfarers and a вЂњvertically challengedвЂќ trickster with a fantastic gift for sowing chaos.

The dreary prospect of spending a lifetime making caskets instead of wonderful inventions prompts a young orphan to snatch up his little sister and flee.

Still, events trot along smartly, and Tim undergoes a personal transformation that not only saves this day, but to judge from a closing twist, others to come.ДЇurther misadventures with cool tech-and, for extra bite, bear-sharks. Except for Phil, who suffers an outsized existential crisis, the characters donвЂ™t jump off the page the way they did in the 2016 opener. Shoveling in further plot-accelerating gadgetry ranging from a disintegrating ray to golf ballвЂ“like teleporters, Ford propels his all-white (or simian) cast to a magnificent climax featuring fire-breathing bear-sharks (the result of too much imagining with too little forethought) and a villain who obligingly explains his machinations at length into a microphone. When he turns for help to the Technology, Research, and Defense Agency, a secret techno-spy agency, boy, monkey, and sidekick Dee are swept into a whirl of deception and betrayal orchestrated by the murderous owner of another device that can control peopleвЂ™s minds through their cellphones. Though bright enough to leave his miniature talking monkey, Phil, at home, Tim decides to let the Imagination Box do his schoolwork-only to have mild guilt transformed to shock when the invention is stolen by a seemingly hypnotized crossing guard. A mysterious wave of attacks forces the 11-year-old creator of the titular device to, literally, think outside the box.