Smek for President!: The Smek Smeries

The Only Road

The Grave Robber's Apprentice

The Secret Battle of Evan Pao

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Amber Undercover

Buster Gets Back on Track

The Interrupted Tale

In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against further deceptions. At last Will is forced to understand that appearances are misleading and that  he has been his own worst deceiver. The rowdy world of market fairs in Elizabethan England is the colorful backdrop for Newbery medalist Cushman's new comic masterpiece. 

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Smek for President!: The Smek Smeries

Adam Rex, 2015

The Only Road

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The Grave Robber's Apprentice

Allan Stratton, 2012

The Secret Battle of Evan Pao

Wendy Wan-Long Shang, 2022

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Lauren Tarshis, 2012

Amber Undercover

E.L. Norry, Em Norry, 2021

Buster Gets Back on Track

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ela Smietanka, 2023

The Interrupted Tale

Maryrose Wood, 2013