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A CARDBOARD PALACE - Middle Grade Fiction
Australian Publisher - MidnightSun Publishing
Swedish Publisher - B/Wahlstroms
2018 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book
ISBN: 978-1-925227-25-3
Ebook: 978-1-925227-26-0
PDF: 978-1-925227-27-7
mobi (Kindle): 978-1-925227-28-4
Jorge lives in a shanty town on the outskirts of Paris. Bill, a controller, has an army of child thieves at his command - and Jorge is one of them. But soon Jorge faces an even bigger threat. His home is to be bulldozed. Where will Jorge sleep? What will happen to his friends, Ada and Gino? Could a burgeoning friendship with Australian chef, Sticky Ricky, help Jorge to stop Bill and save the army of child thieves? And will he do it before he loses Ada forever?
Jorge can't keep fighting to live. Now he must live to fight.
A story of one boy's desperation to escape a life of crippling poverty.
Australian Publisher - MidnightSun Publishing
Swedish Publisher - B/Wahlstroms
2018 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book
ISBN: 978-1-925227-25-3
Ebook: 978-1-925227-26-0
PDF: 978-1-925227-27-7
mobi (Kindle): 978-1-925227-28-4
Jorge lives in a shanty town on the outskirts of Paris. Bill, a controller, has an army of child thieves at his command - and Jorge is one of them. But soon Jorge faces an even bigger threat. His home is to be bulldozed. Where will Jorge sleep? What will happen to his friends, Ada and Gino? Could a burgeoning friendship with Australian chef, Sticky Ricky, help Jorge to stop Bill and save the army of child thieves? And will he do it before he loses Ada forever?
Jorge can't keep fighting to live. Now he must live to fight.
A story of one boy's desperation to escape a life of crippling poverty.