Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms

Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

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By Lissa Evans

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

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)

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$9.99 CAD

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ebook (Digital original)

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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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