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 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.
