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The good thieves / Katherine Rundell ; illustrations, Charles Santoso.

Rundell, Katherine, (author.). Santoso, Charles, (illustrator.).

Summary:

In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.-- Provided by Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781481419482
  • Physical Description: 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First US edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain by Bloosbury Publishing Plc"--Title page verso.
Subject: Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction.
Theft > Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Upper Skagit Library.

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Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe'Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, and The Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.

Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, The Good Thieves, and The Zebra’s Great Escape. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.


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