Crookhaven: The School for Thieves

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year-old Gabriel is a brilliant pickpocket, a skill which he uses to keep his often empty belly not quite so empty. Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But instead of being arrested, he is invited by the mysterious Caspian Crook to attend Crookhaven - a school for thieves.

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An irresistible series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to do good. There's a great twist at the end, establishing this series as a definite one-to-watch and I can't wait to see how the rest of the story unfolds. With skilled writing and a premise akin to Robin Hood, it poses thought-provoking questions about morality and offers a contemporary insight into criminal activity.

He has a masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from City University, London, and currently works in the editorial department at Bloomsbury Publishing. At aged sixteen I moved to Cornwall full-time and carved a career working with children in various settings before becoming a fully fledged Primary Teacher. The second book in the ‘criminally good’ Crookhaven series, the secret school where students are taught to do wrong, so that one day, they can put the world to rights.

Crookhaven: The Forgotten Maze by J.J. Arcanjo | Waterstones

I particularly liked how up-to-date technology such as drones, security systems and hacking mingled with timeless pickpocketing and forgery. He spent the early years of his childhood in Portugal and when he moved to the UK learned English through reading - instilling the importance of books in him from a young age. This eBook can be accessed through the free Dymocks eReader app, ( iOS, Android, Windows), or downloaded via Adobe Digital Editions (and other .We are a home for the forgotten, a sanctuary for the lost and … yes, a training ground for the greatest crooks of the future. But when, one day, he his caught by Caspian Crook, he is invited to join the secretive school of Crookhaven. I wrote and read from a young age, split between an urban suburb in the West Midlands and the coastal wilderness of West Cornwall.

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Crookhaven is a school teaching criminal skills from lock picking to forgery and, when the head spots his talents, he's invited to join. He has a masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from City University, London, and has previously worked in publishing. The first book in the 'criminally good' Crookhaven series, the secret school where students are taught to do wrong, so that one day, they can put the world to rights.His debut middle-grade book, CROOKHAVEN: THE SCHOOL FOR THIEVES, will be published by Hachette on 2nd March 2023.

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We are so much more than that,” Caspian said, sitting in a plush leather chair and gesturing for Gabriel to sit in a similar one across the table.Yes, there are definite similarities to other stories in this genre and yet it is still original enough to offer something new.