After an explorer with a clockwork hand gives Kit West an old book from his father, he and his siblings must evade government agents while solving the puzzle their father sent.

 

This book was recognised by the Bluebonnet Award. It was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.

This book is part of a book series called Expeditioners .

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by McSweeney's Publishing .

S. S. Taylor lives in Vermont and has a strong interest in books of all kinds, expeditions, old libraries, mysterious situations, long-hidden secrets, maps, and exploring known and unknown places. She is most recently the author of Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean.