**Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Stacey
Lee's modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktale--replete with
magic, boba, and lots of trash talking.
**
Twelve-year-old Winston Chu is supposed to learn impulse control at the
cooking academy his mom enrolled him in. But learning to think before he
acts won't happen overnight.
While skateboarding home with a pie in hand, Winston inadvertently stops
a robbery at Mr. Pang's Whimsies, an oddities shop in Chinatown. As a
reward, Mr. Pang invites Winston to choose any item in the store. But
the strange old man warns Winston to browse carefully, for the first
thing Winston touches will be the thing he gets. Before Winston can
decide, a magpie flies under a shelf, and he impulsively grabs an old
broom to sweep it out.
Mr. Pang hands him the broom, along with a dustpan. "Two for one.
Congratulations."
Deflated, Winston returns home, determined to put the broom incident
behind him. Or at least in the closet. But when some of his most beloved
possessions go missing, all Winston can think about are the broom and
dustpan. Did they somehow take his stuff? And what--or who--will they
dispose of next?
It's time to break into Mr. Pang's Whimsies, where clearly there's more
going on than meets the far-seeing eyeball. It's time to fight magic
with magic. And this time, Winston better have a plan.
**Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
soon to be a series on Disney+.
**
Look for these other exciting adventures from Rick Riordan Presents:
Rick Riordan Presents: The Last Fallen Moon by Graci Kim
Rick Riordan Presents: Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Rick Riordan Presents: Pahua and the Soul Stealer by Lori M. Lee
Rick Riordan Presents: Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
