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Hunchback Assignments, The

Hunchback Assignments, The

By Arthur Slade.
HarperCollins, 2009.
9781554683543 (hc)
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Mr. Socrates is a member of the shadowy Permanent Association in Victorian London. When he hears of a hunchback infant with the ability to transform his appearance, he decides to take him in. Naming him Modo, he raises the boy in isolation, and trains him to become a secret agent.

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Arthur Slade

Arthur Slade is from Saskatoon, SK

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Arthur Slade is the author of Dust, a national bestseller and the winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. He is most recently the author of The Hunchback Assignments, Jolted (shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award), Tribes (CLA Young Adult Honour Book) and Megiddo’s Shadow (winner of Saskatchewan Book Award and a Red Maple Honour Book). Slade is also the author of Monsterology, Villainology and the Canadian Chills series.

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This book is available in French, "Les agents de M Socrates".

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Comment #1 posted on April 13, 2011, 9:52 AM
i like your book and conggrats and winning
william holland, John deifenbaker

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