12 year old Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station, where he keeps the clocks running and shoplifts food and necessities to survive. His father has left him a broken robot or automaton, and Hugo is obsessed with trying to get it back up and running. This book is HUGE, 500 + pages, but the majority of these pages are filled with wonderful illustrations of Hugo's mission. The automaton has a message to deliver, one that Hugo is determined to discover. This book will be made into a movie soon....read it soon before it does!
