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The Odds and Ends Workshop
Paperback
Series: The Young Inventors Club
General Juvenile FictionScience Fiction
Publisher: Clara M Everhart
Published: Jul 18 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some toys aren't just built. They're awakened.
In the fog-wrapped attics of Edwardian England, twelve-year-old Pip Hollis discovers her late grandfather's secret toy-making workshop - a cluttered wonderland of matchboxes, cotton reels, cigar boxes, tin scraps, and eggshells. But these aren't ordinary odds and ends. Bound together with an old craftsman's forgotten magic, every toy Pip builds threatens to come alive.
When a windup soldier marches off the workbench and a cardboard boat sails itself into a storm drain, Pip realizes her grandfather wasn't just an eccentric hobbyist - he was the last guardian of the Workshop Ledger, a hidden book of toy-making secrets that keeps a very old, very hungry darkness at bay. Now that darkness wants in, and it's hunting for the ledger's missing pages.
With her skeptical older brother, a rival toymaker's apprentice, and a growing army of handmade allies - a tin windmill, a matchbox theatre, a cotton-reel tank - Pip must craft, invent, and improvise her way through a rip-roaring adventure of mystery, magic, and mechanical wonder, racing to complete her grandfather's masterwork before the workshop - and the whole town - is lost to shadow.
Part steampunk fantasy, part cozy craft-room mystery, part coming-of-age adventure: The Odds & Ends Workshop is a tale of handmade magic, family legacy, courage, ingenuity, and the astonishing power of things built with love - perfect for readers who believe the best magic is the kind you make yourself.
For fans of: toy-making magic - Edwardian England - hidden workshop - found family - handmade adventure - mechanical toys come to life - secret ledger - craft-room mystery - sibling rivalry - apprentice rivalry - steampunk whimsy - DIY ingenuity - grandfather's legacy - cotton reels - matchbox theatre - cigar box inventions - middle-grade fantasy adventure - guardianship - light vs. shadow - resourcefulness - wonder and courage
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