Tapper Watson and the Quest for the Nemo Machine

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Tapper Watson is just an ordinary Erisean boy who loves adventure stories. But when one of his sixty-seven cousins sends him away on a smugglers' submarine through the River Lethe to other worlds, he just wants to go home again.
On an unscheduled visit to Earth he meets Fern Shakespeare,…

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1 author picked Tapper Watson and the Quest for the Nemo Machine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

P.G. Bell

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I wanted madcap, impossible worlds, and this book is packed with them. It was great fun to see my home country of Wales become a gateway to an interdimensional river, leading to a host of imaginative and compelling new planets.

This is pacey, funny, and action-packed, with some wonderfully quirky characters, including a sentient houseplant that communicates through Morse code.

From P.G.'s list on middle grade mysteries that visit other worlds.