The Swifts : a dictionary of scoundrels
Title
:
The Swifts : a dictionary of scoundrels
Personal Author EPSB
:
Beth, Lincoln
Summary
:
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost treasure. She's excited to finally meet her arriving relatives-- until one of them gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs. So what if everyone thinks she'll never be more than a troublemaker, just because of her name?
Year Published
:
2023-2024
Physical Description
:
338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Awards
:
2026 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Junior nominee
Subject
:
Child detectives -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Family reunions -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Added Author
:
Powell, Claire,
Summary
:
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost treasure. She's excited to finally meet her arriving relatives-- until one of them gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs. So what if everyone thinks she'll never be more than a troublemaker, just because of her name?
ISBN
:
9780593533239
9780593533253
Publisher
:
New York : Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
©2023
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