Carman, Patrick.

The house of power / Patrick Carman. - First revised paperback edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010, c2007. - 330 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - 343 - Atherton ; bk.1. .

Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.

ISBN: 0316166715 (pbk.) 9780316166713 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Earthquakes
Friendship
Orphans
Social classes