Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny ones at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is an ex-street kid who dragged her son to all her law-school classes, then proceeded to get kidnapped. That aside, Cyril's life isn’t too different from that of other thirteen-year-olds. He has all the usual adolescent issues to deal with: parent problems, self-esteem problems, skin and hair problems, and girl problems. But he has legal problems too. And he's got to solve them if he wants to save his mother's life.

Quid Pro Quo won the Arthur Ellis Award and the cbc Young Canada Reads 2009 award. It has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe and the Ann Connor Brimer. This 2018 edition has been updated with a new cover.

VICKI GRANT left her career in advertising and television to write her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She has written many books for young readers, including Not Suitable For Family Viewing, winner of the Red Maple Award, Quid Pro Quo, winner of the Author Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret, Pig Boy and B Negative. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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• Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens
• Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Our Choice
• Nominated, New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Young Adult Section Garden State Teen Book Award (GSTBA) - Fiction, Grade 6 to 8
• Commended, Texas Library Association (TLA) TAYSHAS List
• Nominated, Young Readers' Choice Book Awards of British Columbia (YRCABC) Red Cedar Book Awards
• Nominated, Mystery Writers of America (MWA) Edgar Awards - Best Young Adult
• Short-listed, Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature
• Nominated, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Fiction Award
• Commended, Bank Street College of Education Children's Book Committee Best Children's Books of the Year
• Short-listed, Canadian Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year for Children
• Commended, New York Public Library (NYPL) - Books for the Teen Age
• Winner, The Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award - Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book

&quotA narrative laced with lighthearted and self-deprecating humor…Fast-paced and funny.&quot

Kirkus Reviews

"The narrator of this thoroughly engaging whodunit is the smartest mouth on two legs any of us could expect to meet."

The Globe and Mail

&quotInvestigation and legal components will engage fans of straightforward mysteries.&quot

Publishers Weekly

"Funny, clever! Four and a half stars."

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