The Chronicles of Tumblerock: The Clockwork Orchard

By Leon McTaylor

Nobody was supposed to be able to open Father's journal.

He built it for his three sons and sealed the pages himself. Now there are new lines inside it, written in handwriting none of them recognize. Corrections, made by someone who knew Father's work well enough to fix it.

The corrections point beyond the city walls, to a place Father mapped and then never mentioned again: the Clockwork Orchard.

Blackiron takes his brothers and the children out to find the Root Stone. What they find is a forest where the trees are brass, machines that stopped years ago are starting again, and the fruit does not appreciate visitors.

They went looking for a stone.

Instead, they find questions.

Who is writing in Father's journal?

What is the city counting down to?

And why does the same warning keep appearing wherever they look?

Do not let it go quiet.

Some of them will come home changed. The city will still wobble. That is not the same as being broken.

The Clockwork Orchard is Book Two of The Chronicles of Tumblerock-a middle-grade adventure of impossible places, argumentative machinery, found family, and mysteries that get bigger every time someone solves one.

For readers ages 8-12 who like their fantasy funny, strange, and just a little dangerous.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 994861495X
• ISBN13: 9789948614951
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Steep House Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 7