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Children's Fiction Law & Crime

Quid Pro Quo

by (author) Vicki Grant

Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Initial publish date
Apr 2005
Category
Law & Crime, Humorous Stories, Mysteries & Detective Stories
Recommended Age
9 to 12
Recommended Grade
4 to 7
Recommended Reading age
9 to 12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551433707
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $8.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781459819313
    Publish Date
    Aug 2018
    List Price
    $10.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459819337
    Publish Date
    Aug 2018
    List Price
    $8.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781551433943
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to get herself kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn't too different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with: parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin, hair and girl problems. He just has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life.

About the author

VICKI GRANT left her career in advertising and television to write her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She has written many books for young readers, including Not Suitable For Family Viewing, winner of the Red Maple Award, Quid Pro Quo, winner of the Author Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret, Pig Boy and B Negative. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Web: vickigrant.com

Twitter: @VickiGrantYA

Instagram: @vicki_grantya

 

Vicki Grant's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, CBC Young Canada Reads
  • Long-listed, Garden State Teen Book Award nominee
  • Short-listed, Red Cedar nominee
  • Commended, Tayshas List
  • Commended, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
  • Short-listed, CLA Book of the Year for Children nominee
  • Commended, Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year
  • Commended, CCBC Our Choice
  • Short-listed, Ann Connor Brimer Award nominee
  • Winner, Arthur Ellis Award
  • Short-listed, Silver Birch nominee
  • Short-listed, Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee

Editorial Reviews

2006 New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list

NY PL

&quotA narrative laced with lighthearted and self-deprecating humor…Fast-paced and funny.&quot

Kirkus Reviews

"The narrator of this thoroughly engaging whodunit is the smartest mouth on two legs any of us could expect to meet."

The Globe and Mail

Librarian Reviews

Quid Pro Quo

Cyril started law school when he was ten years old. When his mother – an exstreet kid who drags her son to her law school classes – disappears, he must use every skill to save her life.

Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Canadian Children’s Book News. 2006.

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