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Max and the Spracketts, by Emma Catherwood

 

For thirteen-year-old Max, home is a secret room on a speeding train, and survival is a game of theft and wits. But when a mysterious, magic-wielding girl named Lid appears with an impossible claim—that Max’s father is alive and imprisoned in another world—his carefully constructed life derails.

Plunged into the Forgotten Lands, a realm of raw magic and talking puppets, Max discovers he is more than just an orphan. He is the key to a war he doesn’t understand, hunted by the tyrannical Lord Tomlin, who will stop at nothing to possess the power flowing through Max’s veins. To save his father, Max must trust his prickly new guide, embrace a magical heritage he never knew he had, and solve a series of deadly puzzles. But in a world where names have power and family is the most dangerous secret of all, the greatest challenge will be surviving the truth.

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