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Original Title: The Hunchback Assignments
ISBN: 1554683548 (ISBN13: 9781554683543)
Series: The Hunchback Assignments #1
Characters: Modo, Mr. Socrates, Octavia
Literary Awards: Sunburst Award Nominee for Young Adult Work (2010), CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Nominee (2010), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman jeunesse étranger (2011), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2011), Canadian Children's Literature Award for English Language (2010)
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The Hunchback Assignments (The Hunchback Assignments #1) Hardcover | Pages: 275 pages
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A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.

The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania’s efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It’s up to them to save their country.


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Title:The Hunchback Assignments (The Hunchback Assignments #1)
Author:Arthur Slade
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 275 pages
Published:2009 by HarperCollins Canada
Categories:Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Young Adult. Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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I picked up The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade randomly last week at the library. I was bored and feeling risky.The book is loosely, and I mean loosely based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Okay, so I havent exactly read Hugos classic, but I did read the Wikipedia synopsis, and I have seen the Disney movie, so Im basically an expert now.The book is set in late 1800s England, and follows Modo a shape-shifting hunchback who is raised in seclusion until hes 14. At that point,

I really liked this book! Have you ever finished a story and felt sort of smug on the author's behalf? "Yep that was brilliant all right - ooh he is good!" That is the feeling that this book evokes. It has got everything you could wish for - a splash of romance, a dash of mystery, a thimbleful of intrigue and a whole bowl full of danger! Modo is an ugly child, saved from life as a traveling "freak show" attraction by the enigmatic Mr. Socrates. Mr. Socrates is a man high up in the hierarchy of a

"The large carriage rattled with grotesqueries -- bones of cats and pigs strung up as wind chimes, bleached bear skulls dangling from wires, and three shrunken monkey heads mounted on posts."This is where Modo is found as a child -- living in a cage in a traveling freak show, exhibited as "L'enfant du Monstre" for his hunchback and other heavy deformities. A mysterious benefactor, Mr. Socrates, rescues him from this life and raises him in seclusion, with only his nursemaid and an instructor for

3 1/2 stars; I love the "steampunk" setting, and thought it was a really neat concept.

Okay, so it looked like it would be better than it was. Or maybe I was just expecting something more. In any event, I did find it enjoyable and exciting - though the ending was a bit lack luster - and I loved the steampunk setting. Maybe the second book will live up to my expectations a bit better.

This one is difficult. It started out with so much potential, but the rest of the book felt lacking. It starts out with a child being relentlessly trained to have superior memory, knowledge of as many things as possible, different languages, etc. and then we see... almost none of any of that. His main talent, the one the book is centered around, is used a little more often, but still not many times. The premise was great, but it didn't do a whole lot in terms of followup. Beyond a few examples

Three words best describe this book; Weird, creepy, dark. Didn't care for it much, I mean who wants to read about a weird scientist dissecting/remodeling children and making them into creepy, killing machines? Not me, although I DID read the book I know but I honestly didn't know how bad it was until I was about half way through and then I HAD to finish it to see what happened. The only cool thing about the book was Modo whose ability to change into other people was really neat.