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Lawless

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by Jeffrey Salane
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The Lawless School provides the right education for kids on the wrong side of the law.

An action-packed, globe-spanning adventure begins here!Welcome to Lawless, where the head of the class is a dangerous place to be.M Freeman is the newest student at the prestigious (and mysterious) Lawless School. All she really wants is to fit in, but from the moment she arrives, her unusual skills have the whole academy buzzing. M excels at escape tactics. She's a whiz at spotting a forgery. But can she tell right from wrong? She'll have to figure it out fast, because some of her teachers are planning the crime of the century . . . and M and her classmates might be the only people who can stop them.Jeffrey Salane's debut novel is full of twists and turns, and the Ebook includes additional content from the author, unavailable anywhere else!

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lawless

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    April 1, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780545520683

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780545520683
      • File size: 10823 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6
    • Lexile® Measure: 850
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      August 1, 2013

      Gr 5-7-The Lawless School is an ultrasecret training academy for budding master criminals. Twelve-year-old M Freeman, named for her late father, a criminal legend, is whisked off to the school in a private jet, with a crack team of Lawless's highly disciplined archenemies in hot pursuit. After settling in and establishing her reputation as a bold but untamed thief, M leads a class project that will serve as an audition for the Masters, an elite society founded by her father. Her team will steal a lesser-known Rembrandt painting from a London gallery. The story resonates strongly with echoes of the Harry Potter books, particularly the Snape backstory, and is sprinkled with allusions to a range of thrillers, notably The Da Vinci Code and the film The Thomas Crown Affair. Well researched, it even offers a fair amount of art history (some of it spurious), deftly woven into an elaborate plot tying together 17th-century physicist Christian Huygens and Georgian-era celebrity thief Jonathan Wild-not to mention a car chase, a kidnapping, a doomsday plot, highly sophisticated technologies, whipsawing betrayals, and a cascade of discomfiting revelations about M's parents. Despite occasionally clunky dialogue and a few more-than-ordinarily preposterous details in the plot, Lawless is fast moving and fun.-Bob Hassett, Luther Jackson Middle School, Falls Church, VA

      Copyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2013
      When she first enrolled, M Freeman didn't know that her dead father's alma mater, Lawless, was the top-notch criminal training school for the children of top-notch criminals. As M learns about her dad's master criminal status and his fascination with a certain Rembrandt painting, she picks up where his last art heist left off. A smart and funny escapist read.

      (Copyright 2013 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6
  • Lexile® Measure:850
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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