How to Lead a Life of Crime
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · February 20, 2014
A Young Adult pick for readers exploring How to Lead a Life of Crime.
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- Who it’s for
- A cutthroat school, teenage rivals, and an old flame make for tense, high-stakes reading.
- Themes
- Crime and ambition, Survival, Loyalty
- Genres
- YA Crime Thrillers, YA Mysteries, Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
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A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer. Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The rest disappear. Flick, a teenage pickpocket, has risen to the top of his class. But then Mandel recruits a fierce new competitor who also happens to be Flick’s old flame.
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They’ve been told only one of them will make it out of the Mandel Academy. Will they find a way to save each other—or will the school destroy them both?
Criminal Ambition
A cutthroat school, teenage rivals, and an old flame make for tense, high-stakes reading.
Come here for
- A crime-school premise with a ruthless edge
- Rivalry sharpened by old feelings
Expect
- Suspense built around a single graduate’s chance
- A fierce contest with survival at stake
Where it sits
| YA Crime Thrillers | 79% |
|---|---|
| YA Mysteries | 55% |
| Addiction & Substance Use for Teens | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Boys & Men
- YA Crime & Law
- Boarding School YA
- Authors
- Kirsten Miller
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- February 20, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Crime and ambition · Survival · Loyalty
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Boys & Men