Haarville

Product Description

Welcome to Haarville -- if you've arrived, you've survived. Off the grid & not on the maps, it's a place shrouded in fog & steeped in pungent pongs. Everything here smells fishy, especially the town's suspicious new arrivals. Twelve-year-old Manx Fearty is an orphan (his family has a terrible habit of dying, terribly), & now he's about to lose their perpetual device shop to sinister newcomers claiming to be long-lost relatives. As he sets out to prove them wrong, Manx finds himself on the trail of a murky, mist-muddled mystery -- & it's one he needs to solve fast, otherwise Haarville is doomed. With the help of his fiercely protective drag-queen guardian Father G (aka the fabulous Gloria in Excelsis), loyal best friend Fantoosh, & oystercatcher-with-attitude Olu, Manx wades through secrets, schemes & some stomach-churning seafood. Can he save both his family's legacy & his town? Darkly comic but full of heart, this quirky middle-grade mystery adventure from Justin Davies, award-winning author of Help! I Smell a Monster & Whoa! I Spy a Werewolf (Orchard Books), is perfect for fans of Malamander & A Series of Unfortunate Events.