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Bestselling author Rick Riordan presents bestselling author Stacey Lees modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktalereplete with magic boba and lots of trash talking Twelveyearold 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 farseeing eyeball Its 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