Crookhaven: The School for Thieves

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Die Idee zur Schule für Meisterdiebe, die mit ihren Diebstählen etwas Gutes tun wollen, hat mir gut gefallen. He has a masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from City University, London, and has previously worked in publishing.

Besides the comfort of knowing he doesn’t have to scheme and steal to put food in his belly, Crookhaven offers Gabe another first, the opportunity to make friends. Ich habe ihn gerne auf diese ungewöhnliche Schule begleitet und bin durchaus neugierig wie sein Abenteuer weiter geht. 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.

But above all the reason this series is so brilliant to me is the main friendship group and how superbly they are written. I love Gabriel and his group of friends, they were all very different and really complemented each other. Les derniers chapitres sont riches en révélations et répondent à des questions au cœur de l’intrigue. Ils se serrent les coudes, se soutiennent coûte que coûte et sont prêts à tout, même à se mettre en danger, pour se protéger. Dort werden aber nicht Gauner im klassischen Sinne ausgebildet, sondern moderne Robin Hoods, die Verbrechen begehen, um Unrecht wieder gutzumachen.

His debut middle-grade book, CROOKHAVEN: THE SCHOOL FOR THIEVES, will be published by Hachette on 2nd March 2023. Zudem haben die Lehrerinnen und Lehrer ebenso wie alle Schülerinnen und Schüler Charaktereigenschaften und Eigenarten, die nur sie oder ihn auszeichnet, wodurch man sie alle jederzeit voneinander unterschieden konnte. An orphan with special talents and a hidden destiny finds himself summoned to an elite school where he makes close friends and begins to learn about his secret past… We might have been here before but this school for criminals is very appealing indeed and not since the screen version of Oliver Twist has pickpocketing seemed such an attractive art. This was a charming book and a lot of fun, filled with the heart of a classic middle grade boarding school story. Das Leben ist für Gabriel nicht einfach: er wohnt mit seiner Oma, die er sehr liebt, aber sie haben kaum genug Geld und kaum genug Essen.

He is devoted to her and though he steals, it is only ever enough to feed her or help her when work becomes too tough. De beaux messages y sont véhiculés : L’acceptation, la tolérance face à la différence, la découverte de la valeur personnelle d’une personne.I loved so much about this book, the school itself was like Hogwarts but without the magic and instead the kids were given lessons in crimnastics, forgery, lock picking and gardening. To survive, he picks pockets, but when he picks the pocket of Caspian Crook, he is invited to Crookhaven, a boarding school for budding thieves who use their skills for good.

Penelope’s father decrees that she must be separated from her friends, but they continue to meet secretly at night after discovering Maravel's forgotten Maze, hidden deep beneath the lake. Rather than spending some time behind bars, Gabe has been offered a place at a most “disreputable establishment”, Crookhaven, a boarding school for “wrongdoers, swindlers and thieves”. La société des voleurs est régie via un système hiérarchique bien huilé où forcément des personnes mal intentionnées sévissent.The key character is a nice boy who was brought up by his grandmother and who pickpocketed to give them a little food. This was an enjoyable book about friendship and a quirky school for criminals who are being trained to do good in the world. Those of you who were picking locks or scaling walls did so only to reclaim what was yours or recover that which once rightfully belonged to another. We are a home for the forgotten, a sanctuary for the lost and … yes, a training ground for the greatest crooks of the future.