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A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational adoration. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)Vita tests her own limits, and readers will thrill at her cleverness, tenacity, and close escapes. --BooklistA satisfying adventure. --Kirkus ReviewsFrom award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a fast-paced and utterly thrilling adventure driven by the loyalty and love between a grandfather and his granddaughter.When Vitas grandfathers mansion is taken from him by a powerful real estate tycoon, Vita knows its up to her to make things right.With the help of a pickpocket and her new circus friends, Vita creates the plan: Break into the mansion. Steal back whats rightfully her grandfathers. Expose the real estate tycoon for the crook he truly is.But 1920s Manhattan is ever-changing and full of secrets. It might take more than Vitas ragtag gang of misfits to outsmart the city that never sleeps.Award-winning author Katherine Rundell has created an utterly gripping tour de-force about loyalty, trust, and the lengths to which well go for the ones we love.Katherine Rundell is an award-winning childrens writer and a Fellow in English Literature at All Souls College, Oxford. Her books have won, among others awards, the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in America, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcieres in France. She lives mostly in London and a little in Oxford, where she works on research into the Renaissance poet John Donne and occasionally goes climbing on rooftops late at night.
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Brand: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
