Everything you need to understand or teach The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” is a young adult mystery novel by Brian Selznick, told in both words and pictures. The novel revolves round 12-year-old orphan, Hugo Cabret, who lives in an old apartment above a train station in Paris, where he tends to the 27 clocks in the building each day. It is explained that Hugo’s father perished in a fire before the novel begins, and it is Hugo’s...