![]() Together, the three discover they have phenomenal power when they team up as friends, and that they can overcome even the darkest of fears. He is determined to build an automaton and enter the clockmakers' guild - if only he can create a working head. And Frederick, the talented and intense clockmaker's apprentice, seeks to learn the truth about his mother while trying to forget the nightmares of the orphanage where she left him. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family - if she can find it. ![]() From the promotional copy: Three ordinary children are brought together. Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. Kirby is the first-time author of The Clockwork Three (Scholastic, 2010). But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom. Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. ![]()
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