The Crims
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Publisher Description
The Addams Family meets Despicable Me in the first book of this new trilogy, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Pseudonymous Bosch!
The Crim family is full of notorious criminals. Notoriously inept, that is. Uncle Knuckles once tried to steal a carnival. Great-Uncle Bernard held himself hostage by accident. Aunt Drusilla died slipping on a banana peel. But Imogen is different. She was born with a skill for scandal. A knack for the nefarious. A mastery of misdemeanors.
Despite her natural talent for all things unlawful, Imogen got out of the family business years ago. But when the rest of the Crims are accused of pulling off a major heist—which seems doubtful, to say the least—Imogen is forced to step in to clear their names. Because only a truly skilled criminal can prove the bumbling family’s innocence….
A Family of Criminals: Meet the Crims, a clan so comically inept that one uncle held himself hostage by accident. Only twelve-year-old Imogen has the real talent for trouble.A Humorous Adventure: When the family is framed for a heist they couldn’t possibly have pulled off, Imogen must use her mastery of misdemeanors to clear their names.Boarding School Drama: Imogen left the family business for a posh boarding school, but getting expelled drags her right back into the chaos she tried to leave behind.Clearing Their Names: It will take a truly brilliant criminal to prove her bumbling family is innocent. Luckily, Imogen is just the girl for the job.
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Slapstick humor and one-liners drive this British caper about 12-year-old Imogen Crim, who hails from an infamously inept crime family. Imogen's attempt to reinvent herself as head girl at the prestigious Lilyworth Ladies' College comes to an end when an anonymous letter exposes her identity; after being expelled, she returns to the dull village of Blandington and her large, madcap family. The convoluted plot involves "The Heist," her Uncle Clyde's "carefully crafted, amazingly idiotic scheme to steal his long-lost Captain Crook lunch box back from Jack Wooster, his former friend and current enemy." The lunch box is now valued at one million pounds, and the elder Crims happily serve jail time for the theft, in order to achieve felonious fame. To reclaim her place in boarding school, Imogen must enlist the help of her young cousins, aka the Horrible Children, to prove the family's innocence. British author Davies believably sketches Imogen's initial frustrations with her bungling relatives and eventual realization that she loves and is truly one of them. Fans of broad humor and outsize antics will enjoy this off-kilter romp. Ages 8 12.
