A hilarious, fantastical, middle-grade novel full ofmagic, hijinks, gangsters and a talking dog Welcome to the world of NicholasQuick To Be Rescued: Nicholas E. Quick Eleven-year-old boy withdark hair and dark eyes. Right-handed. Can't whistle. Has a birthmark in theshape of Argentina behind his left knee. When eleven-year-old Nicholas Quick and his parents tryto escape from a mob of gangsters, Nicholas is shocked to discover four things: his family possesses secret magic, some dogs can talk, books make delicioussandwiches . . . and he has been left behind. Teaming up with magical privateinvestigator Maxwell Powers, Nicholas sets off on a quest to rescue his parentsand stop the evil Blackwell. There's just one problem: Max has inconvenientlylost his appendix, and with it all, of his magic. What ensues is a cheeky, nonstop comedic adventure full of laughs, peril, scenic prisons, falsemustaches, and suspect tea parties.
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