The characters in this young adult illustrated fantasy story are edgy with eclectic personalities. The flying girl is called Eggs, as she only wears a graphic t-shirt with the word “EGGS” on it. We never know for sure if she can actually fly or if her urban acrobatic skills give the illusion of gliding from balconies to rooftops. Eggs has one “kryptonite”: she is unable to physically touch the ground and climbs onto anything to avoid it. Eggs befriends Grackle McCart, owner of the 100 Dogs Hot Dog Bicycle Cart. Customers always look up for Eggs moving amongst the rooftops. Eggs steals things she needs, but when she steals a jacket belonging to Robin, a rooftop fight erupts. Eggs falls and is carried by an air current to an unknown location – never seen again.

108 pp., 7 × 10", colour illustrations

Source: Association of Book Publishers of BC - BC Books for Schools (2021-2022)

Sybil Lamb is the author of the illustrated YA novel The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly. Her writing and art have appeared in books, magazines, comix, alleys and tattoos. Her novel I've Got a Time Bomb was published by Topside Press.

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Lamb brings fairy-tale wonderment to the cityscape, crossed with cultural touchstones of transient, underhoused, and homeless communities. -Quill and Quire

Every page of this beautiful dream of a book made my heart skip. Eggs is the most lovable, winning character I've met in a long time. -Casey Plett, author of Little Fish

Author and illustrator Lamb conjures an eccentric and original world of $5 punk hotels and multigenerational hot dog–business families and writes with a fantastical style that leaves readers perpetually wide-eyed in wonder. -Kirkus Reviews

Eggs is one of the more unique characters readers will ever meet in young adult novels ... [The book] leaves a great deal open for interpretation and discussion and is the product of a vivid and extravagant imagination. -CM (Canadian Review of Materials)

Sybil Lamb elevates the chapter book format with this incredible tale of love, friendship, solidarity, and the magic of building beautiful things in unlikely places. Eggs is a superhero for these times and the world she (probably) flies through is full of characters (punks, hipsters, knitters, and hot dog vendors) so alive and oddly familiar readers will embrace them like neighbours from a place they never knew they belonged. I cannot wait to read this with the kids in my life. -Cory Silverberg, author of What Makes a Baby