Booth, Martin. Doctor Illuminatus [The Alchemist's son #1]

Booth, Martin. Doctor Illuminatus [The Alchemist's Son #1] Little Brown, 2004 [0-316-01285-8]
Pip and his brother Tim move into an old English estate with their family and run into a strange boy, Sebastian. He turns out to be the son of a alchemist from the Middle Ages and has been asleep for many years. It is his job to stop an evil alchemist from making a homunculs (artificial human.) Of course Sebastian enlists the help of Pip and Tim to fight the evil madman. This 183 page book is evil and dark. It reminded me of a cross between Harry Potter and John Bellair's books.