Review: The Kneebone Boy, By Ellen Potter

Title: The Kneebone Boy
Author: Ellen Potter
Publisher: Feiwel And Friends
Publishing Date: September 14, 2010
Length: 280 Pages
Summary: (From Book) The Hardscrabble children are weird.
Otto doesn't speak.
Lucia is shamelessly candid.
And Max likes to sit on the roof of their house.
Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the plague. But after their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who’s away on holiday, the Hardscrabble children take off on an adventure that begins in the seedy streets of London and ends in a peculiar sea village where legend has it a monstrous creature lives who is half boy and half animal. . . .
My Thoughts: Quirky, odd, unpredictable and very much enjoyable. Like all children's fiction, the story is a lot deeper than it appears on the surface.