Acid Town, Volume 2

Acid Town, Volume 2By: Kyugo In a run down city beset with poverty and gangs, survival is a daily struggle for Yuki and his best friend Tetsu. In a desperate attempt to pay for Yuki's brother's hospitalization, the two of them get caught trying to break into a yakuza vault. But the gang's young boss, Kazutaka Hyoudo, takes an interest in Yuki and they strike a deal: Hyoudo is willing to take care of the hospital bills for a price. A weekly visit to the Seidoukai office

銷售超過200萬本的暢銷兒童小說《黑幫老大幫我洗襯衫》，是她所寫過的最具挑戰性的作品。她坦言，這輩子從未如此盡心盡力的做一件事，也從未如此驕傲的看待自己的成果。她姊姊患有嚴正的自閉症，正是她塑造故事中自閉症姊姊娜坦莉的靈感來源。她以「惡魔島」為故事背景的三部曲，受到《科克斯書評》讚譽為「當代兒童文學的基石系列」，《學校圖書館學刊》也推崇她以「卓越手法交織出歷史細節」。首部曲《黑幫老大幫我洗襯衫》已榮獲紐伯瑞兒童文學獎等十九個獎項，並授權翻譯成全球十一種語言。第二部作品《黑幫老大幫我擦皮鞋》(Al Capone Shines My Shoes)也獲得《科克斯書評》、《基督教科學箴言報》年度最佳兒童小說等多項殊榮；最新的《黑幫老大幫我寫作業》(Al Capone Does My Homework)，更有令人意想不到故事結局。

a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans

renowned artist Blair Bissel

There are lessons to be learned by readers of all ages from this retelling of the classic Hans Christian Anderson story

and its possibilities frightening

By the book's conclusion

she can’t trust anyone

for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam

with the right information and a sprinkling of luck

Jennifer Krause     Foreword by Neil Blumenthal

But they also have

SOG took on the most dangerous covert assignments