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Cargando... The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid (2017)por Colin Meloy
   Books Read in 2017 (3,855) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  PlumfieldCH | May 9, 2024 |   fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 | The only thing he has found to resolve the ennui (Ennui: ahn-wee: A feeling of discontent resulting from lack of interest; boredom) is to make up and write stories about all the people he sees in the cafés and shops while his father is working in France. Everything changes when he discovered that his extra special engraved fountain pen has been stolen. (  ) ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 | The only thing he has found to resolve the ennui (Ennui: ahn-wee: A feeling of discontent resulting from lack of interest; boredom) is to make up and write stories about all the people he sees in the cafés and shops while his father is working in France. Everything changes when he discovered that his extra special engraved fountain pen has been stolen. ( ) ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 | The story gripped me pretty immediately, and the tone of the reading did that kind of interact-y way that MG books sometimes do without coming across as particularly patronizing or even annoying to my adult ears. Charlie was a pretty interesting main character and I can see kids really being drawn to him, and the world is just delightful. The class politics are a little all over the place (the Whiz Mob paint themselves initially as folks pursuing a kind of redistribution of wealth but that all rapidly falls apart) but it's not like I can super demand certain kinds of class politics from an MG book. The ending was a little difficult to listen to because it was so intense and while I had parts of it figured out, I felt like I had to sit through material I would have otherwise kind of skimmed past. But clearly I enjoyed this book, and I blew through it in a pretty fast time! (  ) aijmiller | Mar 18, 2019 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: 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 pickpocketsâ??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 worldâ??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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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.