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GrandPa
Paperback
FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionScience Fiction
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Time flows forward for everyone else. For Leo, it just started running backward.
Ten-year-old Leo loves spending Saturdays in his Grandpa Beno's workshop, a dusty basement filled with cuckoo clocks and half-finished inventions. But when Leo discovers a strange, humming pocket watch hidden behind the furnace, he makes a mistake that changes everything: he winds it.
In a flash of blue light, Leo and Grandpa are pulled into the Backward World-a surreal dimension where waterfalls flow upward into the clouds, trees grow down from the sky, and broken objects spontaneously fix themselves.
But this world isn't just a playground of impossible physics. It is a trap.
In the Backward World, time flows in reverse. For Grandpa Beno, this is a miracle-he feels younger and stronger with every passing hour. But for Leo, it is a death sentence. If he stays too long, he will un-grow from a boy to a toddler, eventually vanishing from existence entirely.
Hunted by The Shadow-a terrifying entity made of static that wants to freeze the universe in a permanent moment-Leo and Grandpa must embark on a desperate journey to the Great Mainspring. To survive, Leo must master gravity-defying Anchor Boots, outsmart mechanical beasts, and learn the truth about his grandfather's secret past as a legendary adventurer.
From the dangerous currents of the Time River to the chaotic ticking of the Puzzle Tower, Leo discovers that saving the world requires more than just magic-it takes the courage to move forward when everything else is pulling you back.
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