The Good Thieves [electronic resource]
Rundell, Katherine2019
eBook
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... FOYLES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 'An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Read everything she writes' DAILY MAIL Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan. Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.
Main title:
The Good Thieves [electronic resource] / Katherine Rundell
Author:
Rundell, Katherine, Author
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize among many others. Katherine spent her childhood in Zimbabwe and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. At night she goes climbing, secretly, across the rooftops of Oxford and London. She is also learning, very slowly, to fly a small plane, in the hope it will lead her to adventure.
ISBN:
9781408854907
Language:
English
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BRN:
361934