Picture Book 1 / The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Title	The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author	Brian Selznick
Illustrator	Brian Selznick
Publication Year	2007
Awards	The Caldecott Medal
Publisher	Scholastic Press
ISBN	0-439-81378-6
Readability Score (GLE = Grade Level Equivalent)	Lexile	820L
	DRA	70
	GLE	5.2
	Guided Reading	NR
Genre /      Sub-Genre	Chapter Book / Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Mystery and Suspense
Theme	Overcoming obstacles
Primary Character	Hugo Cabret
Secondary Characters	Georges Melies, Isabelle, Jeanne Melies
Classroom Use	I would use this book to show Cleverness, Creativity and Imagination. I would also use it to show that anyone can overcome obstacles. I would share with the class that good books can also be a movie.
Book Summary	Hugo is an orphan that lives in the walls of a Paris train station. His father died in a fire and his drunken uncle was responsible for taking care of him. One day his uncle disappears and now Hugo is on his own. His father left a mechanical man behind and Hugo is trying to figure out how to fix it thinking that his father may have left him a message through it. Hugo meets an old man that works at a toy booth and a girl that is usually there with him. The little girl has a necklace that is a key shaped like a heart that fits the back of the mechanical man that Hugo has. When they turn the key into the man, it draws a picture and signs the name Georges Melies (the old man at the toy store). After doing some research, Hugo and the girl find out that the old man use to make movies and she was actually the daughter of a man that use to work for Mr. Melies. He and his wife took her in after her parents were killed in a terrible accident. When Hugo was researching, he read in a book that people believe Mr. Melies was dead. Hugo contacted some people from the movie making company and told them that Mr. Melies was alive and could prove it. At the end of the book, Mr. Melies takes Hugo in and raises him. He is honored at a local party for his wonderful movie making career.