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 friends.But 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)
