The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

From the creator of the bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes a lively middle grade novel featuring Charlie Fisher, a bored American boy in Marseille who witnesses an astonishing pickpocket heist. Fascinated rather than frightened, Charlie befriends a young thief named Amir and is drawn into the thrilling yet risky world of the whiz mob, an elite group of child thieves trained at the enigmatic School of Seven Bells. What begins as a series of lessons in thievery quickly escalates into a high-stakes adventure full of excitement and danger, challenging Charlie’s values and aspirations.