The first volume in ARTHUR SLADE’s Hunchback Assignments series won the prestigious TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and the second volume, The Dark Deeps, was a finalist for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and the CLA Young Adult Book Award. Slade is also the author of Dust, a national bestseller and the winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Children’s Literature. His other books include Tribes, Megiddo’s Shadow, Jolted, Monsterology, Villainology and the Canadian Chills series. He lives in Saskatoon. Visit him online at arthurslade.com.

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The Dark Deeps: The Hunchback Assignments II

In this second instalment of the Hunchback Assignments, Modo and Octavia are searching for the cause of the sinking of several ships. When their ship gets hit, Modo is thrown overboard and saved by an unlikely underwater rescuer. Not alone in his pursuit for the truth, Modo meets a beautiful and mysterious French agent. But with the Clockwork Guild closing in, how he will get back to the surface?