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Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy was just shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award for Young Adult!!!!!









"There is plenty to like about this novel. It is full of fun, and clearly the product of a quirky, inventive mind, ideal for children's writing. Willa is a smart, likeable child with no prejudices. She, her genius mother and practical father (no problem with gender stereotypes here) are kidnapped and taken to a world where they experience bizarre encounters with a variety of unlikely entities. The narrative is often very witty and the absurdity of the story is what carries it along. The pace is fast and the plot farcical in places which is what children will like about it. This would appeal to the 10-12 age range, although a certain amount of intelligence is assumed, otherwise too many of the jokes would be missed."

-International Rubery Book Award

Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

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Human Memory More Like Clockwerk Memory Than Previously Thought

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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...

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...

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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