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Overview

A modern-day Robin Hood by a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author!

Robbie Forester has learned the hard way that life isn’t fair. So have her friends Ashanti, Silas and Tut-Tut. But Robbie and her friends—who call themselves the Outlaws of Sherwood Street—want to change that.

When Sheldon Gun, an evil business man, ends up killing Silas’s father so he can build a new apartment complex in Brooklyn, the Outlaws know it’s up to them to make Sheldon Gun pay. With street smarts, Silas’s inventions, and a little help from a charm bracelet, these friends know they can take on Sheldon Gun and win—at least, they hope so. If not, they may end up just like Silas’s dad. This story is filled with action, adventure, social justice and great friends--and is especially relevant during our current economy and the rise of the Occupy Everywhere movement. Perfect for fans of young detectives like Nancy Drew, Enola Holmes, and Gilda Joyce.

Peter Abrahams, who also writes the Chet & Bernie mysteries as Spencer Quinn, is the award-winning and best-selling author of the Echo Falls series as well as teen novels Reality Check and Bullet Point. His adult novel, The Fan, was turned into a feature film starring Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes. Stephen King has called Abrahams “my favorite American suspense novelist."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101603239
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/16/2013
Series:	Outlaws of Sherwood Street Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
File size:	737 KB
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

Peter Abrahams, who also writes under the pen name Spencer Quinn, is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of mysteries for children and for adults. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts with his wife and two dogs, and tries to entice his four grown children to visit as often as possible.

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A mysterious merry band

"The rumor going around is that a band of kids is mixed up in all this, kind of modern-day Robin Hoods."

A jolt when through me, made my knees go weak and stopped my breathing. My world shrank down to that narrow-eyed look outside and the wild panic inside. "Oh?" I said, my voice quite a bit higher than usual, up there in six-year-old range. I forced myself to breathe again, tried to get my voice back under control. "Really?" Really: the puniest response there was.

"That's the rumor." Did Dina's lips start curving up in that little smile? The nearest streetlight was out, so I couldn't be sure. "But if true, I'd have a sympathetic reaction, if you see what I mean."

"I don't."

"My coverage would be positive," Dina said. "Here's something you might not have realized—shown in the right light, those kids could be stars."

"Huh?"

"Why not? Wasn't Robin Hood a star?"

What People are Saying About This

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Praise for THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD STREET: GIVING TO THE POOR

"A fast-paced ride that should appeal to both boys and girls."—Kirkus Reviews "[Abrahams] is at his best with these friends, remarkably well-drawn individuals whose honest interactions and sharp, authentic dialogue give the outing real emotional resonance."—Booklist "The exciting climax...is entirely satisfying."—School Library Journal

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Editorial Reviews

Praise for THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD STREET: GIVING TO THE POOR
"A fast-paced ride that should appeal to both boys and girls."—Kirkus Reviews"[Abrahams] is at his best with these friends, remarkably well-drawn individuals whose honest interactions and sharp, authentic dialogue give the outing real emotional resonance."—Booklist"The exciting climax...is entirely satisfying."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Gr 5–8—In his second book in the series, Abrahams takes readers on a thrilling and, at times, intense ride. Seventh-grade do-gooder Robbie Sherwood and her fellow outlaws, Silas, a homeschooled keeper of obscure knowledge; Ashanti, a fellow private-school attendee and tough girl; and Tut Tut, a Haitian immigrant who has been sold out by his low-life uncle to the INS and is being housed in a juvenile internment facility, get caught up in the fight against Sheldon Gunn, a gentrifying millionaire (a familiar villain to New York readers) attempting to build a Brooklyn high-rise that will not only block the light for what seems like most of the borough, but just happens to sit atop an ancient Native American burial ground. Personal dramas intersect with the larger action; Robbie's mother loses her job as a high-powered lawyer, Ashanti discovers that her father is having an affair, and Silas's predominantly AWOL father is killed in the struggle to reveal the historical remains beneath Gunn's construction site, but the kids manage to take the emotional hits in, at times, not quite believable stride. The exciting climax, in which the good guys mostly emerge unharmed and the bad guys are literally buried in their own greed, is entirely satisfying and will leave readers eager for the next installment. Fans of Kirsten Miller's "Kiki Strike" books (Bloomsbury), Scott Mebus's "Gods of Manhattan" series (Dutton), and Trenton Lee Stewart's The Mysterious Benedict Society (Little, Brown, 2007) take note!—Joanna Sondheim, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, New York City

School Library Journal

Robbie Forester, aided by her magic charm and multicultural band of do-gooders, Tut-Tut, Ashanti and Silas, again battles evil developer Sheldon Gunn and his nefarious underlings (Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood Street, 2012). Silas, a home-schooled genius who is a master of arcane subjects but scores low on emotional intelligence and physical ability, discovers that his estranged father, Jim Wilders, an expert in Native American culture, is protesting Gunn's proposed new building, a huge tower. Not only will it block out acres of sun, the site could also have been ancestral grounds for an Indian tribe. After Robbie and company find Indian bones on the site, Wilders is murdered. The thriller then moves into warp speed, maintaining its high-adrenaline tension until the happy resolution. Haitian immigrant Tut-Tut, the most soulful character in the first book, plays almost no role in this story, as he's sidelined early after being picked up by the INS. This gives author Abrahams room to develop Ashanti and Silas, who are more fully formed in this go-round. When an important element of a story is a magic charm that responds to injustice, credibility shouldn't be an issue, but coincidence abounds, and readers may find the bad guys too demonic to be real. Still, a fast-paced ride that should appeal to both boys and girls. (Thriller. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews