02798cam a2200349 4500 528977780 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781682632734 1682632733 B08C5DP5B9 Amazon 14b6c96f-4ede-4f19-8516-a71bedceb245 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5590168 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tidhar, Lavie. The Candy Mafia [Libby eBook]. Peachtree Publishing Company, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>Twelve-year-old private detective Nelle is swept up in a world of candy smuggling in this humorous middle grade mystery from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar!</b></p> <p><b>★ "It won't take a detective to spot Willie Wonka, as well as Sam Spade, hidden in the tongue-in-cheek caper's literary DNA." ―<i>Booklist</i>, STARRED REVIEW</b></p> <p>Nelle Faulkner is a preteen private detective who solves cases from her mother's garden shed. She also lives in a city where the mayor has prohibited candy and kid-led candy gangs are thriving.</p> <p>So when notorious candy gangster Eddie de Menthe asks for her help finding a missing teddy bear, Nelle Faulkner is on the case. But when the teddy turns up, Eddie himself goes missing, and Nelle and her friends quickly find themselves swept up in a shady underworld of sweets smugglers, back alley deals, and storefront firebombs.</p> <p>If Nelle has any hope of tracking down her missing client, she'll first have to unmask the true faces behind the smuggling ring. Can she and her friends find a way to take the cake? Or will they come to a sticky end?</p> <p><i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i> meets <i>Bugsy Malone</i> in this entertaining, action-packed mystery from World Fantasy Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar. With moody illustrations by Daniel Duncan, readers will be instantly pulled into the fun.</p>. Juvenile Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Duncan, Daniel. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b6c96f-4ede-4f19-8516-a71bedceb245&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b6c96f-4ede-4f19-8516-a71bedceb245&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b6c96f-4ede-4f19-8516-a71bedceb245&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)