num_pages: 485
description: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...
language: English
title: City of Bones
titlecomplete: City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
characters: Luke Garroway, Isabelle "Izzy" Sophia Lightwood, Simon Lewis, Alexander "Alec" Lightwood, Clarissa "Clary" Fray, Valentine Morgenstern, Jocelyn Fray, Jonathan "Jace" Wayland, Magnus Bane
genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult, Vampires, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 1950190
places: New York City, New York
series: The Mortal Instruments, Shadowhunter Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Georgia Peach Book Award
category: Honor book, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books