SOLVED. Middle Grade/ YA Steampunk/ Fantasy novel about a girl whose grandma gets hurt and she goes back to her grandmas house where she follows a mysterious boy into an underground world with gadgets and mechanical devices and such. [s]

[jaz]

So, as I said in the topic heading, the story is about a girl (she maybe has a brother) I think they're probably in their teens, and their grandma gets hurt while they're at her house, so they get her to an ambulance then go back to her home (the grandmas). I think they find a couple of mysterious things about why she got hurt (there might be a key somewhere as well) and then there are 'bad people' who come, and the girl (and maybe her brother) escape with a random boy that shows up (maybe the bad people are looking for him?) I apologize for the vagueness, I read this about two/three years ago. The language of the book was English, the cover was blue I think, and the characters on the cover were illustrated. Anyway, they escape with the boy who brings them to this underground place with tons of magical, mechanical things, there's something about a type of flashlight or something. And someone or something goes missing and so the boy asks the girl for a favor in return for helping her find whoever it is or whatever it is she's looking for. There is a part where I think they end up in a shop of some sort and the shop owner helps them. Oh, and the boy is wanted or something in this world. He's sort of a criminal. There is definitely a part in the book where something happens to the girl's parents & there is definitely something about a key. That's pretty much all I remember.

[Capn]

...this is probably way too much of a stretch, but just in case:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret?

(yes for key, hidden mechanical area, boy and girl, shop owner becomes helpful... Otherwise, Paris Gare (train station), gendarmes/police.. No magic, and cover doesn't fit.). As I said - just in case :)

[jaz]

Unfortunately, that's not it... I appreciate the help though! (That book looks quite good nonetheless:) Thank you!

[Rainbowheart]

Anything on the Underground Cities list?

[jaz]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Anything on the Underground Cities list?"

Not that I could find...

[jaz]

I found it!! It's called The Uncommoners #1: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell

[Kris]

Great! Glad you found your book, jazzy. Thanks for the update. Here's the link - The Crooked Sixpence (book 1) of The Uncommoners" series by Jennifer Bell.