num_pages: 272
description:  The exciting launch title of Sterling's middle-grade fiction list:HORTEN'S MIRACULOUS MECHANISMS 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 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. 
language: English
title: Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure
publisher: Union Square Kids