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The Dead Gentleman
By CODY, Matthew
- ISBN
- 978-0-375-85596-2 978-0-375-95596-9 978-0-375-89780-1
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–9—This complex, time-bending tale is told in alternating chapters. Tommy Learner tells about his adventures, which begin in New York in 1900, where he is a street child who supports himself by stealing. When he takes a magical metal bird from a man with the face of a corpse, he finds himself pursued by monsters and rescued by the Explorers' Society, a group that traverses magical worlds by traveling through time and space. After the living corpse, the Dead Gentl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Steampunk for middle graders, this time-travel fantasy alternates between Tommy, an orphan from early 1900s New York, and Jezebel, a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
