When these three characters meet, they go on an exciting journey full of the most real dangers that they’ve ever met. He tries to figure out how all of the gears can fit into the head to make him think, but it proves impossible. When he works on a clockwork man, the only thing that’s missing is the head. His talent in music allows other people to be whisked away out of their unhappy lives into something much more beautiful.įrederick is an assistant clockmaker with dreams of becoming a real one. However, when he finds a green violin floating down the harbor, it makes tremendous music, and he discovers a great talent that God has given him. Kirby, explores an alternate version of the late nineteenth century.

He has to make a lot of money, otherwise he won’t get dinner he’ll get beaten by Stephano instead. The Clockwork Three (2010), a historical science fiction novel for young adults by Matthew J. But when he is sold by his uncle to come and live with a man named Stephano in America, Giuseppe has to work hard day after day to earn money by playing a rusty old fiddle. Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. Giuseppe is a young boy who his from Italy. When Hannah hears of a secret treasure hidden in the hotel, she hopes that it can be her way out to make enough money for her father and her family. But when a special guest named Madame Pomeroy hires Hannah as her personal assistant, Hannah will have a job with her until she checks out. She gets a job in a hotel as a maid, but the person in charge of the maids is cruel to her and threatens to fire her. Hannah’s father is paralyzed from the neck down, so Hannah has to give up her school work, which she loves, and go to get a job. Hi! This was an exciting story about three kids named Frederick, Giuseppe, and Hannah. Kirby is the critically acclaimed author of the middle-grade novels Icefall, which won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery and the PEN Literary Award for Children's Literature The Clockwork Three, which was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start The Lost Kingdom Last Descendants, an Assassin's Creed novel The Quantum League.

The clockwork three by matthew j kirby