num_pages: 352
description: On a winter's day in a British town twelve-year-old Alex receives a package in the mail: an old tin robot from his grandfather. This one is special says the enclosed note and when strange events start occurring around him Alex suspects this small toy is more than special; it might be deadly.Right as things get out of hand Alex's grandfather arrives pulling him away from an attack--and his otherwise humdrum world of friends bullies and homework--and into the macabre magic of an ancient family feud. Together the duo flees across snowy Europe unravelling the riddle of the little robot while trying to outwit relentless assassins of the human and mechanical kind.
language: English
title: Monstrous Devices
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers