Synopsis

The adventure continues when the journey leads to a place unlike any Eli has encountered before: the City of Two Sides, a community divided so completely that almost everything has become an argument. People choose sides, defend their side, distrust the other side, and often forget what they were fighting about in the first place.

In The City That Couldn’t Stop Fighting, young readers enter a colorful fantasy world that feels surprisingly familiar. Eli soon discovers that conflict is not sustained simply by disagreement, but by fear, judgment, pride, and the belief that someone must lose for someone else to win. As tempers rise and divisions deepen, he faces a much larger question: What happens when being right becomes more important than being kind?

Funny, adventurous, and thought-provoking, this second book in The World Behind the Mirror series invites children and adults to examine the walls we build between ourselves. It offers a simple possibility: perhaps peace begins when we stop seeing an enemy on the other side, and begin listening to one another.