The Swifts: A Dictionary Of Scoundrels
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included. Ages 9-16.
“A lie is a mischievous thing with a life of its own and no matter how hard you try to keep it hidden, it will surface on your face, or through your hands, or in the way you shift from one leg to another.”
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred family dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, one it’s assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift doesn’t much like being told what to do.
Troublemaker and mischief enthusiast Shenanigan rattles around the grand old Swift house rehearsing Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral with her older sisters Phenomena and Felicity, plotting future crimes, and wondering whether she is herself by choice or design. When the family reunion floods the house with people, Shenanigan is excited to meet her rogue’s gallery of relatives—until one of them gives Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs. Shenanigan had planned to spend the reunion hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile’s hidden treasure. But more murders and an awful lot of suspects—from newcomers Daisy and Atrocious to beloved Uncle Maelstrom—keep complicating Shenanigan’s plans.
With some help from her sisters and their newly befriended cousin Erf, can Shenanigan catch the killer? And in a world where definitions are so important, how will she define herself?
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included. Ages 9-16.
“A lie is a mischievous thing with a life of its own and no matter how hard you try to keep it hidden, it will surface on your face, or through your hands, or in the way you shift from one leg to another.”
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred family dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, one it’s assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift doesn’t much like being told what to do.
Troublemaker and mischief enthusiast Shenanigan rattles around the grand old Swift house rehearsing Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral with her older sisters Phenomena and Felicity, plotting future crimes, and wondering whether she is herself by choice or design. When the family reunion floods the house with people, Shenanigan is excited to meet her rogue’s gallery of relatives—until one of them gives Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs. Shenanigan had planned to spend the reunion hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile’s hidden treasure. But more murders and an awful lot of suspects—from newcomers Daisy and Atrocious to beloved Uncle Maelstrom—keep complicating Shenanigan’s plans.
With some help from her sisters and their newly befriended cousin Erf, can Shenanigan catch the killer? And in a world where definitions are so important, how will she define herself?
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included. Ages 9-16.
“A lie is a mischievous thing with a life of its own and no matter how hard you try to keep it hidden, it will surface on your face, or through your hands, or in the way you shift from one leg to another.”
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred family dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, one it’s assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift doesn’t much like being told what to do.
Troublemaker and mischief enthusiast Shenanigan rattles around the grand old Swift house rehearsing Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral with her older sisters Phenomena and Felicity, plotting future crimes, and wondering whether she is herself by choice or design. When the family reunion floods the house with people, Shenanigan is excited to meet her rogue’s gallery of relatives—until one of them gives Schadenfreude a deadly shove down the stairs. Shenanigan had planned to spend the reunion hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile’s hidden treasure. But more murders and an awful lot of suspects—from newcomers Daisy and Atrocious to beloved Uncle Maelstrom—keep complicating Shenanigan’s plans.
With some help from her sisters and their newly befriended cousin Erf, can Shenanigan catch the killer? And in a world where definitions are so important, how will she define herself?
ISBN 978-0-593-53323-9
Beth Lincoln
2023