by Emma Trevayne
Flap Copy Description:
Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London.
Londinium is a smoky, dark, 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. The Gearwing grants wishes - or it did before it was broken - before it was killed. But some things don't stay dead forever.
My Thoughts:
The latest release from Emma Trevayne is both imaginative and inventive. The steampunk settings of Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times seem to transport the reader to the parallel world of the metal and magical Londinium. The character arc of the protagonist - Jack Foster - will keep the reader turning the pages of this beautiful book. I would highly recommend this middle grade novel to readers from the ages of eight to twelve!
