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Gr 5-8 A secret pawnbroker, Joe Zabbidou pays for secrets, and everyone has one. Ludlow Fitch, escaping his parents' efforts to sell the teeth from his mouth, meets Joe in the desolate mountain village of Pagus Parvus. It is an ideal place for Joe as miserly Jeremiah Ratchet uses people's transgressions to blackmail and cheat them. Joe offers young Ludlow a job transcribing confessions into Joe's Black Book. Desperate individuals declare they are grave robbers, thieves, even...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After his own parents try to sell his teeth (right out of his mouth!) for cash, Ludlow Fitch runs away. Apprenticed almost at once to the charismatic and eccentric Joe Zabbidou, Ludlow begins to learn his new trade as a pawnbroker of secrets. In passages alternating between Ludlow's memoirs and third-person accounts, the reader learns that Joe pays the villagers of Pagus Parvus for secrets...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After his parents try to sell his teeth (right out of his mouth!), Ludlow Fitch runs away. Apprenticed to eccentric Joe Zabbidou, Ludlow learn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More