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Gr 6 Up—In an exciting opening chapter, Jack Wilde's plan to get kicked out of boarding school works perfectly. He is sent to his wealthy guardian's home in the English countryside, where he plans to confront his guardian and godfather, Oberon Venn, about his father's disappearance. The teen suspects Venn of murder, but discovers that the truth is far more complicated. Venn, his butler, and numerous cats rattle around in Wintercombe Abbey, working on experiments with the Chronoptika, an ancien...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jake Wilde gets himself expelled from his posh private school for one purpose: so he can be sent back to his guardian Oberon Venn and accuse him of murdering his father, David. But when Jake arrives at Venn's decaying estate, Wintercombe Abbey, he learns that David wasn't murdered. David disappeared while he and Venn were experimenting with a Victorian time-machine made of an obsidian mirror, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More