Pub Date: February 8, 2005
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2003027388
Lexile Code: 0640
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to UP
Physical Info: 1.26" H x 8.54" L x 5.90" W ( 1.18 lbs) 357 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Mysteries and Detective Stories | Coming of Age | Travel and Transportation | General
Description: Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. When Ed inadvertently stops a bank robbery, that's when he becomes the messenger. Winner of the 2003 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in Australia.
Review Quotes: "Funny and gripping." --The Miami Herald
"Both serious and funny, touching and exciting." --The Salt Lake Tribune "Fresh and thought-provoking." --The Grand Rapids Press "Raucous, poignant, and at times laugh-out-loud funny." --BookPage "Compulsively readable." --Publishers Weekly, Starred "Unpretentious, well conceived, and appropriately raw." --School Library Journal, Starred "Zusak outdoes himself here." --The Bulletin, Starred "Zusak succeeds brilliantly." --Booklist, Starred "Funny, engrossing, and suspenseful." --KLIATT, Starred