Cloud Town

An exciting middle-grade graphic novel about best friends, giant robots, and monsters from another universe!In Dan McCloskeyÆs debut graphic novel, best friends Pen and Olive live in Cloud Town, an impoverished community on Floating Island, a mysterious landmass that drifts above the earth and happens to sit dangerously close to the Ripùa tear in the fabric of the universe. No big deal or anything.While Pen is brash and brave, Olive is quiet, kind, and also fearful of bullies at school. That is, at least until the day they are nearly squashed by a Care Corp Storm Catcher, a giant android built to protect Cloud Town and the rest of Floating Island from Hurricanes, monsters that travel across the Rip. It isnÆt the event itself that changes the girlsÆ relationship. It isnÆt the fear of death that drives them apart, or the questionable decision-making that leads Pen to drag Olive into the cab of the crashed robot. ItÆs the fact that Olive can move the 90-foot-tall machine and Pen canÆt. Care Corp recruits Olive t