Description
Title: Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure
Author: Lissa Evans
ISBN: 9781402798061
Publisher: Union Square Kids
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 8.5.2012
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery, and danger.
As if being small and having
S. Horten as his name isn’t bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his on his very first day in his new home, Stuart’s swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony–a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth–and Tony’s marvelous, long-lost workshop. Along the way, Stuart reluctantly accepts help from the annoying triplets next door… and encounters trouble from another magician who’s also desperate to get hold of Tony’s treasures.
A quirky, smart, charming page-turner, Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms will enchant young readers–as well as teachers, librarians, and parents.
Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal (2012) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (2011)
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