This is the most thrilling thing that's happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks.
Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist in this totally original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets, from the author of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles.
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