Small Fry Pick of the Week:Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times by Emma Trevayne

Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London.  Londinium is a smoky, dar, and dangerous place, home to mischievous metal faeries and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding steam.  The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets in their nostrils to filter air, and mechanical limbs to replace missing ones.

Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son--a perfect flesh-and-blood child.  She has chosen Jack.  His only hope of escape lies with a legendary clockwork bird.  The Gearwing grants wishes or it did before it was broken-before it was killed. But some thins don't stay dead forever.

Ages 8-12


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