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Description
Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to get herself kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn't too different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with: parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin, hair and girl problems. He just has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 9 to 12
- Grade:
- 4 to 7
- Reading age:
- 9 to 12
Awards
- Winner, CBC Young Canada Reads
- Long-listed, Garden State Teen Book Award nominee
- Short-listed, Red Cedar nominee
- Commended, Tayshas List
- Commended, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
- Short-listed, CLA Book of the Year for Children nominee
- Commended, Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year
- Commended, CCBC Our Choice
- Short-listed, Ann Connor Brimer Award nominee
- Winner, Arthur Ellis Award
- Short-listed, Silver Birch nominee
- Short-listed, Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee
Editorial Reviews
2006 New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list
— NY PL
"A narrative laced with lighthearted and self-deprecating humor…Fast-paced and funny."
— Kirkus Reviews
"The narrator of this thoroughly engaging whodunit is the smartest mouth on two legs any of us could expect to meet."
— The Globe and Mail
Out of print
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