City of Islands
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| Author | Kali Wallace |
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| Genre | Children's fantasy, Middle grade fiction |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | July 24, 2018 |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-249981-3 |
City of Islands is a 2018 children's fantasy novel by Kali Wallace.
The novel was Wallace's first children's book, and she chose to set it in a multicultural seaport with characters of different ethnicities, orientations and economic statuses so that children of all backgrounds could relate to it. Wallace also considered the way that the novel's fictional society treated children to be a core theme, as the protagonist Mara must work and struggle to survive despite being a child. She described it as "the kind of children’s story that illuminates the ways in which adults fail children."[1]