Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure (Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms #2)

This magical follow-up to Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms continues Stuart's amazing adventures--with more enchantment, more surprises, and more thrills. When we last left 10-year-old Stuart, he had just recovered his great-uncle Tony's long-lost magic workshop. Now all the priceless tricks are on display in the Beeton Museum--and Stuart is junior curator of the exhibit! But another mystery awaits Stuart: Where did the great magician hide his will? Only by entering the magic world of the workshop can he find the answer. But as the mechanisms whisk him off on increasingly incredible adventures, the puzzles become harder and harder to solve ... and the stakes higher. With even more page-turning action, this second book in the exciting middle-grade series does a magic trick of its own: it's even better than the first! Stuart Horten (ten, but looks younger) is now the owner of a magician's workshop - except that without his Great-Uncle's Last Will and Testament, he can't actually prove it.Which is a problem, since someone else wants it as well; someone who has a lot of money. The workshop contains seven magnificent stage illusions, but when Stuart starts to investigate them, he discovers that each is the gateway to a magical adventure, with a puzzle to solve, and a clue to extract. As the clues mount up, the adventures become riskier. Friendship is strained, and danger looms and Stuart has to decide what sort of prize he really, truly wants. A follow-up to the award-nominated Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms finds Stuart working as a junior curator at the museum where his great-uncle Tony's magical workshop objects are on display and embarking on a new mystery that challenges him to find the great magician's hidden will. Ten-year-old Stuart, Having Become The Junior Curator Of The Museum Exhibition Showcasing His Great-uncle Tony's Long-lost Magic, Enters The Magical World Of The Workshop Once More To Find Tony's Will And Is Faced With A Series Of Puzzles That Become Harder And Harder To Solve. Stuart gets a job as a junior curator at the museum where his great-uncle Tony's magical workshop objects are on display and embarks on a new mystery that challenges him to find the great magician's hidden will 349 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm830L Lexile