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The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/10/2017

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From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist.

It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks.

Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. This is the most thrilling thing that’s happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. So instead of reporting the thieves, Charlie defends one of their cannons, Amir, to the police, under one condition: he teach Charlie the tricks of the trade.

What starts off as a lesson on pinches, kicks, and chumps soon turns into an invitation for Charlie to join the secret world of the whiz mob, an international band of child thieves who trained at the mysterious School of Seven Bells.

The whiz mob are independent and incredibly skilled and make their own way in the world they are everything Charlie yearns to be. But what at first seemed like a (relatively) harmless new pastime draws him into a dangerous adventure with global stakes greater than he could have ever imagined.

ISBN:
9780143787860
9780143787860
Category:
Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-10-2017
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
203x162x30mm
Weight:
0.69kg
Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy once wrote Ray Bradbury a letter, informing him that he "considered himself an author too." He was ten. Since then, Colin has gone on to be the singer and songwriter for the band the Decemberists, where he channels all of his weird ideas into weird songs.

With the Wildwood Chronicles, he is now channeling those ideas into novels. Colin and Carson live with their sons, Hank and Milo, in Oregon.

Carson Ellis

As a kid, Carson Ellis loved exploring the woods, drawing, and nursing wounded animals back to health.

As an adult, little has changed-except she is now the acclaimed illustrator of several books for children, including Lemony Snicket's The Composer Is Dead, Dillweed's Revenge by Florence Parry Heide, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.

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