The Classy Crooks Club

by Alison Cherry

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin hardcover edition March 2016

  Text copyright © 2016 by Alison Cherry

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  Interior designed by Hilary Zarycky

  The text of this book was set in Bembo.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Cherry, Alison.

  The classy crooks club / by Alison Cherry.—First Aladdin hardcover edition.

  pages cm

  Summary: “Twelve-year-old AJ is dreading spending the summer with her uber-strict grandmother—that is, until she’s recruited to join Grandma Jo’s madcap band of thieves”—Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-1-4814-4637-2 (hc)—ISBN 978-1-4814-4639-6 (ebook)

  [1. Grandmothers—Fiction. 2. Old age—Fiction 3. Robbers and outlaws—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.C41987Cl 2016

  [Fic]—dc23

  2015029378