The Marvels
From the publisher: "This brilliant journey through time in words and pictures is also a story of a theatrical family and their fortunes."
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Brian Selznick combines forms -- drawings, pictures, graphic novel elements, and film (so cinematic, it was adapted to a film called Hugo starring Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jude Law). His main character Hugo is an orphan who secretly lives in a Paris train station, keeping the clocks running and observing life in the station. When he discovers a mystery in a notebook once belonging to his father, it sends him on a search to uncover a new passion and new friends.
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