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Gr 4-7 A hilariously gruesome comedy thriller set in England. Fergal Bamfield's an oddball kid who collects cans without labels from the reduced-price bins of supermarkets and spends a lot of time puzzling over their contents. Compelled to open a particularly lightweight can with an interesting rattle, Fergal finds a gold earring stud. In another, he finds a human finger. When he meets fellow collector Charlotte, he learns that she has opened a tin that contained a human ear and another with a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Funny, gruesome, and unpredictable, this novel details the unexpected development of a crime-fighting partnership between Fergal and Charlotte, who share an eccentric obsession with collecting unlabeled cans. When the two meet over the bargain bin in a British grocery store, their mothers take misguided comfort in the discovery that someone else's child shows such "originality" as well. The new...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Funny, gruesome, and unpredictable, this novel details the crime-fighting partnership between Fergal and Charlotte, who collect unlabeled cans. The...Log In or Sign Up to Read More