This book was an alright book that really caught my attention. I do not relate to Stuart because he goes out and I cant so I cant relate to anyone in this book. Lisa makes this book really funny ex: S. Horten. Its funny because his family is really tall and hes shorten ---^. I recommend this awe...
What a fun book! It's for mystery-philes and juvenile fiction enjoyers. Horten is an engaging character. His dad uses sesquepedalian words, his best friend is a triplet, and he inherits a magic shop that he has to find using 40 year old clues. Could it get better?No swearing, not meanness, jus...
I should have known this was a sequel, given that the word "Another" is in the title, but alas, I read this one first. Even still, I was charmed by this lovely little novel. Stuart, a 10-year-old boy who looks younger, has recently moved to a new town. He's also recently found his great-uncle's i...
The second book continues Horten's adventures with his uncle's magic tricks. These large tricks have been moved to the Beeton Museum for display. He and his friend, April, explore the tricks and find themselves in various settings where they must solve the rather dangerous puzzles in order to ret...
Horten’s Incredible Illusions picks up where Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms leaves off. The illusions Stuart found stored in the bandstand are moved to the museum for preservation and 10-year-old Stuart Horten is given a job curating his uncle’s magical contraptions. Stuart and April (the one o...
‘Not seen you in here for a while,’ said Win Jackson, as Donald sat down with a ginger ale. ‘Someone says to me you’d been done over but I didn’t believe them. I says, “I don’t believe you,” and this chap says, “Honest as I speak, someone’s done Donald Sedge over,” and I says, “I don’t believe yo...
There was a little too much reverberation created by the large number of hard surfaces, but the ceiling was surprisingly high, and by tilting his head back he could achieve quite a decent effect. Plosives, in particular, came out well. Bright copper kettle Pretty copper ke...
hissed April, crawling beneath the parked van next to them. Stuart wriggled after her, like a caterpillar. From his new viewpoint, his chin an inch or so above the road, he could see the tires of the police car, the door opening, the feet of a policeman getting out. There was a momentary pause, a...
Stuart yelled. “Please!” but no one answered. Lights in the huge room began to dim.“April!” he called, his voice lost in the vastness. On the path ahead of him a glowing letter I flickered briefly on every paving stone, and then, with a neck-clicking jolt, Stuart found himself back in the shed ag...