Y/A CORNER ~ HEIST SOCIETY!ALLY CARTER
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own--scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she'd expected.
Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it.
Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help. For Kat there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back.
So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in history--or at least her family's (very crooked) history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Even though Ally Carter is the author of the popular Gallagher Girls series (think a distaff version of Alex Rider), she has never told anyone she loved them and then had to kill them. She does, however, frequently cross her heart and hope to spy.
FOR MORE INFO 
WORDSMITH TELLS THE STORY OF CLAY WASHBURN, A PENNY AND A HALF A WORD PULP WRITER TRYING TO MAKE IT FROM DAY TO DAY IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION. CLAY WANTS TO WRITE MORE “IMPORTANT” THINGS, BUT THE FATES NEVER SEEM TO LET HIM DO THIS.
TOLD IN A STARK STYLE THAT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE LINE DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOR, CLAY DOES NOT SOLVE CRIMES OR FIGHT EVIL DOERS IN HIS SPARE TIME, HE JUST WRITES, AND FRANKLY SPENDS A LOT OF TIME FEELING SORRY FOR HIMSELF FOR FINDING HE HAS TO WORK FOR THE PULPS.
THE ACTION IN THE SERIES COMES ONLY FROM DEPICTIONS OF THE STORIES HE WRITES, WHICH ARE REALLY AT THE HEART OF THE SERIES.
IT’S AS IF SOMEBODY TURNED FRANK GRUBER'S PULP JUNGLE INTO A COMIC BOOK.
GOOD STUFF, AND STILL AVAILABLE WITH A LITTLE GOOGLE ACTION.
