The inventions of Hugo Carbet

This story is in the mind of a poor 12 year old boy who has to lie and steal to survive in the streets of Paris.Hugo loves clock work and has to work in the train station clocks after his father died in a museum fixing the Automaton. After the death of his father he decides to finish the work of his father ! But while caught stealing in a toy shop he is forced to work for an old grumpy man. Meanwhile makes friends with Isabelle who is the mans goddaughter and they together find the secrets that have remained hidden for so long on the work of the Automaton? And is the grumpy god father what he seems?

I really like this book because although it was big It was very interesting and it had a very good story line .I liked how it was made into 2 parts.I would rate it a 4 and a half out of 5!