Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond

I am Canadian, eh!
by Jayne Barnard | Children's Books |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by fracula of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 8/23/2015
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8 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by fracula from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, August 23, 2015
Author autographed copy - When Words Collide 2015

Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands.

Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him.

While he is supposedly hunting the fabled Eye of Africa diamond in the Nubian desert, his expeditionary airship is found adrift off the coast of England. Maddie was the last reporter to see the potty peer alive. If she can locate the baron or the Eye of Africa, her career will be made.

Outraged investors and false friends complicate her quest, and a fiendish figure lurks in the shadows, ready to snatch the prize . . . at any price.

Journal Entry 2 by fracula at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Friday, December 11, 2015
Autographed by the author @ When Words Collide 2015.

Cute little book, by a local author.

Journal Entry 3 by fracula at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Friday, December 11, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (12/12/2015 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taking to the December meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers, held at Cravings Market Restaurant.

Journal Entry 4 by locker-monster at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, December 13, 2015
Picked up this book at the Calgary BookCrossing December meet-up. Looks like a cute YA steampunk book.

Journal Entry 5 by locker-monster at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Monday, December 28, 2015
This was a fun book. Maddie is a resourceful, independent young woman who doesn't let anything stand in her way. The steampunk setting is just there; the author feels no need to go into vast details about how the world works, which I appreciate. I got a weird feeling like this wasn't the first book in the series, but I couldn't find any evidence to support or contradict this. I guess Maddie was having adventures with Obie well before the events of this book.

Oh, and I love the character names in this book. Colonel Muster and Professor Plumb, Professor Windsor "Windy" Jones, Detective Hercule Hornblower (who is Belgian and uses his "little grey cells" to solve mysteries), to name a few. It made me giggle every time.

Journal Entry 6 by locker-monster at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, January 9, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (1/9/2016 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Passing on this book to the next reader at the Calgary BookCrossing January meet-up.

Journal Entry 7 by megami-no-ushi at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, January 9, 2016
Picked up at the January meeting.

Journal Entry 8 by megami-no-ushi at Cravings Market Restaurant in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, September 10, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (9/10/2016 UTC) at Cravings Market Restaurant in Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taking to the September meet up, X-tra long on the shelf!

This was a very fun steam punk mystery.

To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!

Journal Entry 9 by Crataegus at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Monday, September 12, 2016
Picked up at the september bookcrossing meetup in Calgary. It's great to be back!! Looking forward to the read.

Journal Entry 10 by Crataegus at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Thursday, May 4, 2017
I think I had a bit of difficulty getting into this book since there's no introduction to this steampunk world and it plunges you straight in to the story.

However, it didn't take long to get absorbed into the book. It's a quick cute short read. I too thought it was part of a series, and I'm disappointed to read (from a previous review) that might not be the case.

Will be sent back to Calgary Bookcrossing to be enjoyed by another reader.

Journal Entry 11 by Eri-Cherry at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Picked up at get together

Journal Entry 12 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, December 8, 2018
The Christmas miracle - I arrived late so I came home with 1 book!!! I may just whittle down my bookshelf.

Journal Entry 13 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Friday, October 25, 2019
What a fun read. She is a quirky character and the whole transportation by balloon plus all the funky machine helpers. Thanks for the read Fracula!

Journal Entry 14 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, November 9, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (11/9/2019 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Time to take my sack full of books to the November meetup at Cravings Restaurant and find a new reader for each of them.

Journal Entry 15 by crossingguardma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, November 17, 2019
Safely in my hands

Journal Entry 16 by crossingguardma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Thursday, May 28, 2020
I don’t know why, but I just can’t get into this book so making available for the next reader to enjoy

Journal Entry 17 by crossingguardma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, July 18, 2020

Released 3 yrs ago (7/18/2020 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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I am adding this book to the Bookcrossing Calgary book box. Our way of keeping books moving during covid19.

Journal Entry 18 by wingherchellewing at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Monday, August 31, 2020
I have chosen this book out of our Travelling Book Box. Thank for this read!

Journal Entry 19 by wingherchellewing at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, August 27, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (8/28/2022 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Sorry, but I need to return some books back to the group at our meetup at Cravings. It has been such a long time since we have gotten together!
So many books and so little time!

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Journal Entry 20 by fracula at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Tuesday, September 6, 2022
This book is with me, for a future wild release.

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