Name: Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms
ISBN: 9781402798061

Lissa Evans

Moving away from everything familiar to live in a new house, 10-year-old S. Horten reluctantly befriends the annoying triplets next door and is swept up in a magical quest to find his great-uncle Tony, a famous magician who disappeared along with his fantastical workshop.

Magic, Mystery & a Very Strange Adventure

Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms

Sarah Sammis

Excellent except for the IDIOTIC Americanization of the book. It's BRITISH book for —s sake. 

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MJ Laird

This was book was such a wonderful surprise! I found it at the library and thought it looked like something to help ease my boredom a bit and actually found it so enjoyable! It was so refreshing and unique! Not like most books out right now. I find it really hard to find good books and often find myself just re-reading the good ones and the totally pointless and kinda dumb ones simply because I can't find anything new to read! As soon as I finished this one I went out to try and find the sequel and now I have them both sitting on my shelf and I pick them to read all the time! I would certainly recommend these books!

Abby N. Lewis

This book was absolutely marvelous! I loved the fact that the book itself was tiny and portable, much like the protagonist, young Stuart. I simply adored his father and his witty yet counfusing statements that just had me smiling like an idiot because half the time I had no earthly idea what the man was saying, but I still found it vastly entertaining and educational.

The vocabulary is so vast, it's a wonder they even labeled it as a young adult novel. That's what I love about it though. Most of the time, the father would say something completely intelligent and the son would say "What?" and the father would translate. As simple as that, but that's what was so brilliant about it- it broadened the vocabulary of young readers in such a way as to not be boring.

It was an absolutely superb idea, and besides that fact, I quite enjoyed the plot of the book itself as well. The idea of the three identical triplets was shocking and intriguing. It was suspenseful and well written, and I just found the whole thing to be a delight.

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