The Good Thieves - Katherine Rundell

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Résumé :
In New York City, Vita is the new girl. Brought up hunting rabbits in the English countryside, she and her mother have moved across the ocean to look after her ailing grandfather who has been swindled out of the family fortune by a conman named Haroff.
With her excellent hunting skills, Vita enrolls in The Circus Academy where the best of the best.young performers hone their acts. She isn't interested in being a performer - she needs friends with very particular talents. Because Vita has a plan to revenge herself on Haroff by stealing back her grandfather's most valuable treasure of all.

Biographie:
Katherine Rundell is the author of four best-selling novels for which she has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. She spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance Literature and loves to climb old buildings at night. She lives in London.