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The Mesmer Menace
Author:
Hamilton, Kersten
Illustrator:
Hamilton, James
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Series:
Gadgets and gears, #1
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 8-12
Language: English
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LC: PZ7.H182
Grade: 3-7
Print Run: 10000
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ISBN-13: 9780547905686
LCCN: 2012050257
Imprint: Clarion Books
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Pub Date: 11/19/2013
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $16.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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132 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
H 7.75",
W 5.25",
D 0.65",
0.5 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Gadgets and gears
Gadgets and gears ;
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Humorous Fiction
Science Fiction
Pets/Domestic Animals
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs
JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Intermediate
JUVENILE FICTION / Robots
JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Technology / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Transportation / Railroads & Trains
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LC Subjects:
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Adventure and adventurers, Fiction
Dachshunds, Fiction
Dogs, Fiction
Humorous stories
Hypnotism, Fiction
Inventions, Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs
JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues)
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Intermediate
JUVENILE FICTION / Robots
JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Technology
JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction
JUVENILE FICTION / Transportation / Railroads & Trains
Robots, Fiction
Science fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Adventure fiction
Dachshunds, Fiction
Dogs, Fiction
Humorous fiction
Hypnotism, Fiction
Inventions, Fiction
Robots, Fiction
Science fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5.4
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Points: 3.0
Reading Counts Level:
4.7
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Points: 6.0
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| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 11/01/2013 |
| Young inventor Wally Kennewickett can't imagine a better place to live with his faithful dog, Noodles, than in the Amazing Automated Inn, where Wally's genius scientist parents have let their imaginations run wild. When a summons from Theodore Roosevelt leaves Wally home alone with his dog, the duo must take on wicked mesmers looking to control powerful people's minds. Gadgets and gears series, 144pp., B/W Ill. |
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| Booklist | 11/01/2013 |
| Grades 2-4. Wally Kennewickett, intrepid boy scientist, and his loyal dachshund, Noodles, combat a plot for world domination in a new steampunk series for younger readers. The famous Kennewickett family owns the Amazing Automated Inn, run by electrical automatons whose energy comes from the lightning harvester on the hotel roof. One day, President Theodore Roosevelt visits in disguise, requesting help from Wally's parents to defeat an evil hypnotist. But while the adults are gone, danger arrives at the inn. Fast paced and funny, with plenty of alliteration and word definitions provided by Noodles, it carries hints of both Lemony Snicket's wordplay and the absurdity of M. T. Anderson's Pals in Peril series. Ample inset illustrations break up the text and draw the reader into an alternate past in which technology takes a different turn. Noodles narrates and does not waste time delving into humans' motives or nuanced emotions. Young, precocious readers and older readers looking for a shorter read will enjoy this first title in the Gadgets and Gears series. Harold, Suzanne. 144p. Booklist Online. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 3. It's the early twentieth century, and Wally Kennewickett's genius parents are called away to stop the evil hypnotist Mesmers from controlling the minds of those in power. While they're away, the Mesmers infiltrate the Kennewickett inn/lab, and it's up to Wally, his dachshund Noodles, and the house automatons to stop them. Narrated by Noodles, the illustrated story is a lively steampunk escapade. rr. 130pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 09/15/2013 |
| Steampunk with training wheels for the chapter-book set. Set in 1902, this series opener features a dachshund narrator, Noodles, with a human companion, young Wally Kennewickett. Their home is the Automated Inn in Gasket Gully run by Wally's parents, eccentric geniuses, and staffed by their inventions. In the first chapter, President Theodore Roosevelt turns up in hobo disguise seeking help to foil a plot by evil magicians to achieve world domination via hypnotism. After this spirited opening, blending familiar steampunk tropes (Nikola Tesla, the Ottoman Empire) with quirky original elements (demented pigeon fanciers, a genial conspiracy theorist), the plot stalls. Its villain is sidelined and unmet, while characters interact and Noodles fills in back story. The picture brightens whenever the inn's mechanical staff is on hand. Gizmo supervises the housekeeping Dust Bunnies and shares cooking duties with Knives, whose many attachments "allow him to slice, dice, chop and puree at incredible speeds." These appealing automated characters need more to do. Noodles, whose role as omniscient narrator stunts his character development, is similarly underutilized. (Let's face it--dachshunds are wasted as straight men.) A surfeit of alliteration and arch dialogue amplifies missteps, but flashes of originality and sly humor, bolstered by nifty, gear-laden illustrations, keep the enterprise afloat. Awkward plotting and cliched language hobble but don't quite defeat the imaginative, engaging premise. (Steampunk. 9-12). 144pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 10/14/2013 |
| Ages 9-12. Noodles, a dry-humored dachshund, narrates this auspicious first book in the Gadgets and Gears series, set in 1902. Wally Kennewickett, the dog's young master and a "scientist in training," lives with his parents, world-famous inventors whose contraptions include a staff of automatons, windup dust bunnies to clean their hilltop inn, and a popcorn popper powered by lightning. When President Theodore Roosevelt recruits the elder Kennewicketts to help thwart the Mesmers, an organization of mind-controlling magicians intent on taking over the world, Wally is left to demonstrate the popcorn popper to a contingent of visiting vendors. As the villains infiltrate the gathering, Hamilton (the Goblin Wars trilogy) makes the comedic most of her premise, including a pigeon capable of hypnosis and a winged vest created by Wally that enables Noodles to fly. Wearing that invention, the acrophobic dog heroically foils the villains' ploy--for now. Noodles's antics and droll, mannered narration (on Roosevelt: "Everyone knew he had the courage of a corsair") make him the indisputable star of this show. Final art not seen by PW. Author's agent: Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. (Nov.). 144p. Web-Exclusive Review. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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