Written by Lissa Evans. First edition, February 2012. (Originally published in 2011 in Great Britain as Small Change for Stuart.) Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing.
A note and irresistible curiosity launch ten year-old Stuart Horten on a mission to find his great-uncle Tony's workshop of "wonderful mechanisms, trickery, and magic".
"I have to go away, and I may not be able to get back. If I don't return, then my workshop and all it contains is yours if you can find it - and if you can find it, then you're the right sort of boy to have it.
Affectionately,
Your uncle Tony
P.S. Start in the telephone booth on Main St."
From the jacket:
"In order to find the place, Stuart must believe the unbelievable - while dodging the annoyingly prying eyes of his triplet neighbors, April, May, and June."
Lissa Evans planned on being a medical doctor, and she was, but her own irresistible curiosity led to her becoming a comedienne, a TV and radio producer, and now a children's author. Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms is her first book of fiction.
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