She starts school at Foxfire, the school for Elvin nobility. She is forced to leave her human family behind and stay with an Elvin couple, Grady and Edaline Ruewen, who later adopt her.

He tells her that she is an elf, a race with dozens of genetic-based 'special abilities' (her telepathy among them), and she must move to the Lost Cities, a hidden civilization where elves and other fantasy races live. She lives in San Diego, California until a teenager with the same power, Fitz Vacker, contacts her. The series tells the story of Sophie Foster, a twelve-year-old high school senior with the ability to read minds. The seventh book in the series, Flashback, had a first printing of 150,000 copies and Shannon Messenger's three-week tour to promote the book drew crowds of 200-700 people per event. The series first charted following the release of the 5th installment, Lodestar, on the week of November 20, 2016. The first book in the series was an Association for Library Service to Children tween recommended read in 2013. Keeper of the Lost Cities is an upper- middle-grade fantasy series by Shannon Messenger that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of ten weeks. ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone.

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