Dimensions
130 x 191 x 20mm
The Wild, Wild West meets Tom Swift: book two of a inventive series filled with history and cool scientific fact. Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts' lab and sabotaging their experiments, putting everyone at the Amazing Automated Inn at risk. In pursuit of the villains, the family of scientific geniuses board their dirigible and take to the skies. Together with their robotic staff and the inventor Nikola Tesla, they must face murderous sky pirates, cross the Alps in a giant mechanical spider, and defy the perilous pigeon Iron Claw and the malevolent magician Madini once more. Will boy inventor Wally and his daring dog, Noodles, be able to defeat the evil Mesmers and their minions a second time? History and technology collide in this fast-paced series narrated by a daring dachshund and brimming with mad science. AGES: 9 up AUTHOR: Kersten Hamilton is the author of several picture books and many novels, including the acclaimed YA paranormal trilogy 'The Goblin Wars'. When she's not writing, she hunts dinosaurs in the deserts and badlands near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she lives. For more about Kersten, please visit www.kerstenhamilton.com. Illustrated ALL TITLES IN THIS GADGETS AND GEARS: Bk 1 HB 9780547905686 Mesmer Menace (06/15) Bk 1 PB 9780544439344 Mesmer Menace (08/15) Bk 2 HB 9780544225022 Ire of Iron Claw (09/15) Bk 2 HB 9780544668546 Ire of Iron Claw (07/16)
