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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

a novel in words and pictures

by Brian Selznick

533 pages · 2007

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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

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