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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