Book description
Tapper Watson is just an ordinary Erisean boy who loves adventure stories. But when one of his sixty-seven cousins sends him away on a smugglers' submarine through the River Lethe to other worlds, he just wants to go home again.
On an unscheduled visit to Earth he meets Fern Shakespeare,…
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1 author picked Tapper Watson and the Quest for the Nemo Machine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I wanted madcap, impossible worlds, and this book is packed with them. It was great fun to see my home country of Wales become a gateway to an interdimensional river, leading to a host of imaginative and compelling new planets.
This is pacey, funny, and action-packed, with some wonderfully quirky characters, including a sentient houseplant that communicates through Morse code.
From P.G.'s list on The most intriguing middle grade mysteries that visit other worlds.
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