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McCaughrean, Geraldine

The Death-Defying Pepper Roux

328 pp. | HarperCollins/Harper | January, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-183665-7 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-183666-4 $17.89
(2) 4-6 McCaughrean's yarn is a wildly improbable but thoroughly entertaining one. Pepper Roux's aunt has predicted that he will not live past his fourteenth birthday. When the dreaded day arrives and Pepper finds himself very much alive, he embarks on a madcap adventure in an effort to cheat death. A picaresque tale from one of the more remarkable novelists writing for children.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010

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