Quid Pro Quo
Cyril MacIntyre may only be thirteen years old, but he knows the law.
La 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.
Récompenses
- Long-listed, Garden State Teen Book Award nominee 2007
- Commended, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2006
- Winner, CBC Young Canada Reads 2009
- Short-listed, Red Cedar nominee 2007
- Short-listed, CLA Book of the Year for Children nominee 2006
- Commended, Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year 2006
- Commended, CCBC Our Choice 2006
- Short-listed, Ann Connor Brimer Award nominee 2006
- Commended, Tayshas List 2007
- Winner, Arthur Ellis Award 2006
- Short-listed, Silver Birch nominee 2006
- Short-listed, Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee 2006
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