There were little wood-framed pictures of family members on the walls, a cup of cheap candy with a glass lid on the desk, and a vase with faded plastic flowers on the filing cabinet. Our cubicle had glass sides, which made it less confining, but it still felt fake. We were to the side of the main bank chamber in one of the cubicles where the mortgage men worked. Thinking of his agony on that day still makes me shiver. I’d never heard it raised, save for that one time at my mother’s funeral. “David, turn around, please,” my father said.

Everyone showed so much variety back then. The different shapes of faces, the hairstyles, the clothing, the expressions. I knelt backward on a chair that was too big for me, watching the flow of people. Men and women streamed in and out, as if the room were the heart of some enormous beast, pulsing with a lifeblood of people and cash. Two large revolving doors opened onto the street, with a set of conventional doors to the sides. A single open chamber with white pillars surrounding a tile mosaic floor, broad doors that led deeper into the building. We used the old street names back then, before the Annexation. My father and I were at the First Union Bank on Adams Street. Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Summary: At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners-the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Visit us on the Web! /teensĮducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.ĭelacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Jacket art copyright © 2013 by Mike BryanĪll rights reserved. Text copyright © 2013 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC

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Steelheart by brandon sanderson