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Book Buzz exclusive: New Brian Selznick book

Jocelyn McClurg
USA TODAY
'The Marvels' by Brian Selznick

Few authors combine words and pictures as creatively as Brian Selznick, whose 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret won a Caldecott Medal and was adapted for film by Martin Scorsese. Now Selznick will return with a new book, The Marvels, due Sept. 15, 2015 from Scholastic.

It's his first book since 2011's Wonderstruck. Here's a first look at the jacket of The Marvels (ages 10 and up), described as a "multi-layered reading experience" that combines two "seemingly unrelated stories."

The illustrated story begins in 1766 with the lone survivor of a shipwreck named Billy Marvel, and follows the adventures of his family over five generations. The "word" story opens in 1990 and tracks a boy called Joseph who has run away from school in London. Various mysteries come together over the course of the book.

"I'm thrilled to finally share The Marvels with readers after three years of intense work on the book, including living briefly in London and spending an entire year drawing the pictures," Selznick said in a news release.

Author Brian Selznick

Hugo Cabret, the story of an orphan clock keeper and thief in a Paris train station, reached No. 59 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.

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