The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick.

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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Copyright c2007.

Subjects:
Méliès, Georges, 1861-1938.
Railroad stations -- France -- Paris.
Robots -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940.
France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940 -- Juvenile fiction.
Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction.