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Illustrated by
Tony Ross.
McKay continues to display her extraordinary gifts (for language, nuance, humor; for capturing human nature and family dynamics) in this third book (Binny for Short; Binny in Secret). Binny finds a stack of twenty-pound notes and impulsively pockets the lot. It seems like an answer to her bankrupt family's prayers, but instead a miserable seven days follow. The whirlwind-paced plot folds in big ideas for readers to think about.