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Dec 01, 2017LPL_DanC rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A strange book and a good story for middle graders. The first half of the book consists entirely of hand-drawn pictures, a la Selznick's recent works--The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and Wonderstruck. The other half consists of straight prose. The book presents, and resolves, a compelling mystery about a young runaway from a British boarding school who flees to his odd uncle's house in London. Why does his uncle live in a house that seems stuck in Victorian times, and who are the people his nephew hears in the house but never sees? The answers were not anything close to what I would have guessed, and finding them out kept me turning the pages.