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Winston Chu vs. the whimsies / by Stacey Lee.
Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781368074803 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Los Angeles : Disney/Hyperion, 2023.
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| Subject: | Folklore > China > Juvenile fiction. Magic > Juvenile fiction. Changelings > Juvenile fiction. Families > Juvenile fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. Paranormal fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister. - Baker & Taylor
"After inadvertently stopping a robbery at an oddities shop in Chinatown, 12-year-old Winston Chu is gifted a broom and dustpan that somehow take his most beloved possessions and decides itâs time to fight magic with magic to sweep away evil. Simultaneous eBook. " - Grand Central Pub
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Stacey Lee's modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktaleâreplete with magic, boba, and lots of trash talking.
Twelve-year-old Winston Chu is supposed to learn impulse control at the cooking academy his mom enrolled him in. But learning to think before he acts wonât happen overnight.
While skateboarding home with a pie in hand, Winston inadvertently stops a robbery at Mr. Pangâs Whimsies, an oddities shop in Chinatown. As a reward, Mr. Pang invites Winston to choose any item in the store. But the strange old man warns Winston to browse carefully, for the first thing Winston touches will be the thing he gets. Before Winston can decide, a magpie flies under a shelf, and he impulsively grabs an old broom to sweep it out.
Mr. Pang hands him the broom, along with a dustpan. âTwo for one. Congratulations.â
Deflated, Winston returns home, determined to put the broom incident behind him. Or at least in the closet. But when some of his most beloved possessions go missing, all Winston can think about are the broom and dustpan. Did they somehow take his stuff? And whatâor whoâwill they dispose of next?
Itâs time to break into Mr. Pangâs Whimsies, where clearly thereâs more going on than meets the far-seeing eyeball. Itâs time to fight magic with magic. And this time, Winston better have a plan.
Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, soon to be a series on Disney+.
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