FICTION

The Crims

by Kate DAVIES
304p. (Crims). HarperCollins. Dec. 2017. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780062494092.
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Gr 4–6—Imogen Crim is trying to escape her family's legacy of bumbling criminal activity. She has gotten clean, changed her name, and is trying to restart her life at Lilyworth Ladies College. But when her family takes credit for a major heist, Imogen is expelled. She sets out to prove her family didn't commit the crime—after all, there's no way her small-time crook relatives could have planned and executed something so complex. However, proving their innocence is not going to be easy. This series opener is filled with unique, memorable characters. The mix of sophisticated wordplay and gut-busting potty humor will attract a wide range of readers.
VERDICT Hand this to fans of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" or Eoin Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" series.
Reviewed by Patrick Tierney, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Providence
Davies swells the ranks of incorrigible children from disreputable families with her introduction of a family of (mostly unsuccessful) malfeasants and criminals. When the adults of the Crim family are wrongly imprisoned, it's up to criminal genius Imogen--who's been in hiding at Lilyworth Ladies' College--and the other Horrible Children to free them. Slapstick, fast-paced, and ridiculously entertaining, this book has superb read-aloud potential.
 , Jun 01, 2018

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