What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World by Henry Clark...A lot of imagination and world saving.

What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World
8/10

Henry Clark Website

Totally has nothing to do with anything historical.  It is as far from it as a book could be.  After reading the interview with the author at the end of the book, I can understand why!  He is pretty imaginative a cooky.

This book is very entertaining.  It has a lot of twists in it.  Very few books surprise me.  This one does.  Party because there is no way you would have seen that coming!  The main character actually (SPOILER).  I think his writer's craft was to just "Go for it!"  Definitely not realistic either, but you probably guessed that already.  It is written in 1st person.  

A lot of Figurative Language?  Yes.

Personification?  One word...FURNITURE.  Of course, I am not sure if it counts as personification when the furniture is actually a character in the book???  Figure that one out.

Onomatopoeia: "It was followed by a disapproving tch-tch, and then a muffled cry from Freak."

Simile:   " 'You look," said Freak, "like a camera lens.'"
               "'Like Santa Claus at the mall?'"

This story also had an incredible amount of advanced vocabulary all over the place.  Examples...renaissance, quintessential, charred, etc. (Granted, it also has a lot of neologisms, or made up words...)