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Feed your kids' kindles with Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy—for free!

Traveling this 4th of July weekend? Feed your kids' kindles with Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy—for free! Send them on a steampunk detective mystery with Willa Snap and her cat Grayson. Science, fashion, history, STEAM. Amazon Link

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Published on July 02, 2021 09:25 • Tags: bookdragon, carolyn-arcabascio, idiot-genius, middle-grade-series, richard-due, science-fiction, series, steampunk, willa-snap-and-the-clockwerk-boy

As you slowly crack open the book, so do you creak open a door—only to find an eye staring back at you!

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Published on March 14, 2021 07:21 • Tags: a-series-of, a-series-of-unfortunate-events, artemis-fowl, enola, enola-holmes, gaiman, harry-potter, holmes, neil-gaiman, sherlock, wild-robot

Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

Your mother’s identified as an Idiot Genius, your family’s abducted to a strange new city—for safekeeping—and now your timeline’s in danger. What’s an ingenious 11-year-old to do?

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Published on September 08, 2019 06:23 • Tags: artemis, castle, catherynne, children, city, clock, clockwerk, dragons, events, fowl, gaiman, games, hollow, house, howl, hunger, indiereader, jackson, lemoncello, leviathan, library, memory, moving, nevermoor, peculiar, penderwicks, percy, review, riordan, rowling, serafina, series, shusterman, steampunk, teen, time, tween, unfortunate, walls, wrinkle

So, What Exactly is Steampunk?

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Published on July 03, 2019 05:48 • Tags: airship, airships, arcane, aviator, brass, gadgets, gaslight, gaslights, gears, gloves, goggles, hats, iron, listopia, london, parasol, parasols, propellors, steam, steampunk, top, victorian, waistcoat, waistcoats

LitPick Reviews Willa Snap

Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy is a charming epic of how a normal girl is whisked into an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. . . . [more]

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Published on February 26, 2019 04:46 • Tags: 5-star, adult, artemis, award, book, colfer, eoin, fiction, fowl, gaiman, genius, grade, harry, idiot, illustrated, jackson, litpick, mg, mglit, middle, neil, percy, potter, review, sci-fi, science, scifi, snap, steampunk, student, teen, tween, willa, ya, yalit, young

Listopia: Middle Grade Steampunk

What is Steampunk? It’s a lot of things. It’s four Englishmen traveling across India in a huge, steam-powered mechanical elephant (Jules Verne, THE STEAM HOUSE, 1880). It’s fantastic airships, goggles on top hats, arcane gadgets, waistcoats and parasols. It’s Victorian England if the technologies of Victorian England never faded. It’s mechanical computers, spinning propellers, clanking machines made of gears, iron, and brass. It’s London lit by gaslights, mysterious villains, and mad scientists with diabolical powers. It’s fun! So, grab your aviator scarf, done a long pair of evening gloves, pocket that watch that turns back time, and come and join us.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

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Published on February 03, 2019 06:37 • Tags: arcane, aviator, brass, clockwerk, cosplay, dirigibles, fashion, gadgets, gaslight, gears, goggles, idiotgenius, listopia, lists, london, steam, steampunk, timetravel, victorian, willasnap

IndieReader Loves Idiot Genius

The staff over at IndieReader had some very nice things to say about Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

"Abducted into a secret world, eleven-year-old Willa Snap takes readers on an imaginative journey through a place filled with mechanical people and fantastical machines. There’s wit and passion in the dialogue as . . ."

Full blurb here: https://indiereader.com/2019/01/idiot...

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