Description
Thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata--self-operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his traveling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp and an uncanny ability to make Natalie's half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers a horrible truth and realizes that only she has the power to set things right.
Set in 1914, The Boneshaker is a gripping, richly textured novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.Author: Kate Milford
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 05/23/2011
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.06w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780547550046
ISBN10: 0547550049
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Horror
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
Kate Milford is a published playwright and screenwriter, and author of The Boneshaker and Greenglass House. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her website at www.clockworkfoundry.com.