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Greetings from Witness Protection! Spiral-Bound | 2018-10-02

Jake Burt

★★★★☆+ from 1,001 to 10,000 ratings

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A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.

Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals' best bet to keep a family alive. . . .

The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation's most notorious criminals. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two. Adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need.

Nicki swears she can keep the Trevor family safe, but to do so she'll have to dodge hitmen, cyberbullies, and standardized testing, all while maintaining her marshal-mandated B-minus average. Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her family's security might not lurk on the road from New York to North Carolina, but rather in her own past.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1250179041
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.0 x 7.6 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Greetings from Witness Protection!:
"Jake Burt is a storytelling magician. . . . Nicki relates her unusual experiences with humor and with a commitment that melted my heart and made me wish I'd known her when I was in seventh grade." --Ann M. Martin, New York Times-bestselling author of Rain Reign and the Baby-Sitters Club series

"What do you get when you mix a snarky city girl with a shady past and lightning reflexes with a seemingly typical suburban family she's just met? A funny, action-packed novel about the trials of school, parental arguments, and sibling rivalry. . . .

[Readers] will relish the action and fast-paced plot as well as the engaging and competent Nicki." --School Library Journal

"This inventive, clever story has a lot of heart at its center. Jake Burt's debut is utterly rewarding." --Wendy Mass, New York Times-bestselling author of The Candymakers and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Jake Burt teaches the fifth grade in Connecticut. He lives with his wife and their daughter in Hamden, Connecticut. Greetings from Witness Protection! is his fiction debut.