Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies

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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Stacey Lee’s modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktalereplete 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 wont happen overnight.

While skateboarding home with a pie in hand, Winston inadvertently stops a robbery at Mr. Pangs 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 whator whowill they dispose of next?

Its time to break into Mr. Pangs Whimsies, where clearly theres more going on than meets the far-seeing eyeball. Its time to fight magic with magic. And this time, Winston better have a plan.