author-Brian Selznick
Hugo Cabaret is a young boy living in the upstairs of his fathers clock shop and one day he finds his father carrying something wrapped in musty cloth. it was an automaton a machine that magicians would often build to be part of their stage setups. Hugo and his father worked on the automaton during every bit of their free time. but then tragedy strikes Hugo's father is trapped in the museum ,his fathers second job, at night when somehow a fire sparks and leaves his father dead in the smoldering remains of the once very grand museum. his uncle is forced to take hugo in and makes him his assistant in winding the clocks twice a day but uncle claude dosent do anything in helping Hugo. one day uncle Claude is found dead by the riverbank and everyone grows suspicous who was winding the clocks?!
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