By Padraig Kenny (author)
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March 2018 Debut of the Month | In a nutshell: robot story with real heart
Christopher is a ‘proper’: a real boy with a soul. His best friends Jack, Rob, Manda and Gripper are ‘mechanicals’ riveted together from metal and wires, but still some of the warmest and most real characters you will ever meet in fiction. When strange facts about Christopher’s past come to light, he is stolen away, and his mechanical friends put themselves in real danger to bring him back.
With elements of The Wizard of Oz and a touch of Philip K. Dick, Pádraig Kenny has created a thoroughly intriguing and involving adventure story full of characters that readers will really care about. He also poses interesting and important questions about what being human means.
This is a story to recommend to fans of Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart or Philip Reeve’s epic Mortal Engines series. ~ Andrea Reece
Christopher is ''Proper'': a real boy with a real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works for an engineer, a maker of the eccentric, loyal and totally individual mechanicals who are Christopher''s best friends. But after a devastating accident, a secret is revealed and Christopher''s world is changed for ever ...
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What follows is a remarkable adventure, as Christopher discovers who he really is, and what it means to be human.
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer from Newbridge in County Kildare. He has a first class master's degree in Anglo-Irish Writing from Maynooth University, and he has taught English literature and creative writing. He has worked as a freelance arts journalist, and as a scriptwriter he has written drama and comedy for radio and screen. Tin is his first novel.
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Christopher is ''Proper'': a real boy with a real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works for an engineer, a maker of the eccentric, loyal and totally individual mechanicals who are Christopher''s best friends.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Tin and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Tin features in the following genres: Debuts of the Month, Recommendations, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Fantasy / Magical, Science Fiction, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Tin was written by Padraig Kenny and published by Chicken House
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