Walter Mortinson s unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter s mother demands he join the family mortuary business. When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, it isn t long before Walter decides to flee Moormouth to meet his destiny.
year: 2019, 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: automobile travel, fiction, death, inventors, mothers and sons, single-parent families, undertakers and undertaking, juvenile fiction, mother-son relationship, humorous fiction, road fiction
Editions
Sosna-Spear, Quinn
Simon & Schuster (2019)
Walter Mortinson s unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter s mother demands he join the family mortuary business. When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, it isn t long before Walter decides to flee Moormouth to meet his destiny.
Schools: 1
Sosna-Spear, Quinn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2020)
"Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father"--OCLC.
Schools: 1