Tin

Porik Kenny is an Irish writer. "Tin", his debut novel, immediately burst into the top "Book of the month" and became a laureate of several international awards.
In the world where the twelve -year -old Christopher lives, there are mechanisms endowed with consciousness - mechanics. They can do hard work, talk, even ... experience emotions - although they are stupefied by the "principles of improved activation", is strictly prohibited by law. Disappeared engineers are waiting for a severe punishment. But some still risk and create mechanics that are absolutely similar to people ...
Having lost his parents in a fire, Christopher gets into students to a loser engineer, whose mechanics simply fall apart - and they, absurd and simple -minded, become a new family for him. But once, after a terrible accident, a secret opens, which destroys the usual world.
Teenage steampunk cocktail from Pinocchio "and" Northern Lights".
For children of secondary school age