![]() ![]() March’s life might be at risk if he can’t find and steal all thirteen moonstones. The father’s dying words starts March on a quest to find thirteen valuable and possibly cursed moonstones. A botched heist with tragic repercussions. We meet March McQuinn, an almost thirteen year-old master thief in training, as he witnesses his father’s fall from an Amsterdam building. Seriously, how could I possible not read a book with a giant diamond sporting a pair of yellow Wayfarers on the cover? While I had to wait until after the first day of NerdCamp was complete, once I made it back to the Super 8, I got right to my new page-turner. ![]() When I saw the cover peering back at me in my NerdCamp swag bag it took nearly all of my willpower to stop getting my room set up for a presentation and dive right in. Jude Watson’s Loot: How to Steal a Fortune is on the crest of the aforementioned wave. It fascinates me to see authors like Gordon Korman, Stuart Gibbs, Eoin Colfer and Kate Messner craft an at least plausibly believable plotline with kids acting like James Bond, Kinsey Millhone or John Dortmunder. To be honest I am seriously loving the current wave of books that cast kid characters as spies, detectives or master criminals. ![]()
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