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Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms

Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

Contributors

By Lissa Evans

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Apr 3, 2012
Page Count
272 pages
Publisher
Union Square Kids
ISBN-13
9781402798450

Price

$7.99

Format

ebook (Digital original)

Format:

ebook (Digital original) $7.99

Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery … and danger.

As if being small for his age and also having S. Horten as his name isnt bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends.But on his very first day in his new home, Stuarts 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 Tonys marvelous, long-lost workshop. Along the way, Stuart reluctantly accepts help from the annoying triplets next door… and encounters trouble from another magician whos also desperate to get hold of Tonys treasures.

A quirky, smart, charming page-turner, Hortens Miraculous Mechanisms will enchant young readers–as well as teachers, librarians, and parents.
 
Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal (2012) and the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize (2011)

Lissa Evans

About the Author

Lissa Evans, who resides in London with her husband and two daughters, has traveled quite a mysterious path to middle-grade novelist. After a brief career in medicine and an even briefer one in stand-up comedy, Lissa became a comedy producer and spent a decade running a red pencil through other peoples work before eventually beginning to write herself. Lissa has written three adult novels and a picture book. This is her second work of middle-grade fiction.

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