Loot: How to Steal a Fortune - Hardcover

Watson, Jude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0545468027 ISBN 13: 9780545468022

Publisher: Scholastic Pr, 2014

Synopsis

"LOOT hits the jackpot." -- Rick Riordan, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author

On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels."But March learns that his father is not talking about a stash of loot. He's talking about Jules, the twin sister March never knew he had. No sooner than the two find each other, they're picked up by the police and sent to the world's worst orphanage. It's not prison, but it feels like it.March and Jules have no intention of staying put. They know their father's business inside and out, and they're tired of being pushed around. Just one good heist, and they'll live the life of riches and freedom most kids only dream about. Watch out! There are wild kids on the loose and a crime spree coming . . .

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About the Author

Jude Watson is the author of six 39 Clues books, Beyond the Grave, In Too Deep, Vespers Rising, A King's Ransom, Nowhere to Run, and Mission Titanic, along with the bestselling Star Wars: Last of the Jedi and Jedi Quest series. As Judy Blundell, she wrote What I Saw and How I Lied, the 2008 winner of The National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She lives in Long Island, New York, with her husband and daughter.

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Never trust a guy who says "trust me." Never give your real name to a cop.Never let someone steal your getaway car. It was that last piece of his father's advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam. Only it wasn't his getaway car, it was his getaway bike, and someone had pinched it.Just about the worst thing you can do to a thief is steal his stuff. March was especially indignant. He'd actually paid for the bike!He checked the time on his cell. He didn't have time to panic. He only had time to steal another mode of transportation. In just about seven minutes, his old man, world-famous cat burglar Archibald McQuin, was going to have a fistful of diamonds and be looking for an exit.Mist curled along the surface of the canal. All the good citizens of Amsterdam were snoring underneath their eiderdowns. The weeping edges of a yellow moon dissolved and re-formed on dark water as the flow of the tide moved through. March intently scanned the row of bicycles chained to the railing, searching for his target. The difference between a million bucks and twenty-five-to-life can come down to thirty seconds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545468027
• ISBN 13: 9780545468022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266