Kenny, P?draig

Half-human and half-monster Mirabelle is on a mission to protect the only home she has ever known from a sinister new threat bent on eradicating her family.

"When two orphans break through the magic shield that is keeping an extraordinary family of monsters safe from those who would do them harm, they are all put in grave danger"--OCLC.

"Christopher is 'Proper': a real boy with a real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works for an engineer, a maker of the eccentric, loyal and totally individual mechanicals who are Christopher's best friends. But after a devastating accident, a secret is revealed and Christopher's world is changed for ever"--OCLC.