The Secret Sea (Summer Reading)

          The Secret Sea, by Barry Lyga, is an advanced readers addition that I read for Thalia Book Club Camp – at Symphony Space. It is about Zak – a New York City boy with a heart condition. He always feels that his two best friends, Nora and Khalid, don’t truly understand what he goes through,  they – in fact – always support him. Zak has always felt an urge and a voice guiding him to do the best possible thing, but during the book he feels the urge getting stronger. Zak finds out that his parents have hidden the existence and death of his twin brother – Tommy – who died of a faulty kidney at two years of age. So Zak and his two friends escape to an alternate dimension to help save Tommy from his purgatory state. It is a science fiction fantasy clash, and I recommend reading it when it comes out.