Fakers: An Insider's Guide to Cons, Hoaxes, and Scams

Wood, H. P.

ISBN 10: 1580897436 / ISBN 13: 9781580897433

Verlag: Charlesbridge, 2018

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From the Trojan horse to fake news, scams have run rampant throughout history and across the globe. Some con artists do it for fun, others for profit. . . and every once in a while, a faker saves the world.

In this era of daily online hoaxes, it's easy to be caught off-guard. Fakers arms kids with information, introducing them to the funniest, weirdest, and most influential cons and scams in human history. Profiles of con artists will get readers thinking about motivation and consequence, and practical tips will help protect them from falsehoods. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is--except in the case of this book!

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: H. P. Wood is the granddaughter of a mad inventor and a sideshow magician. She is also the author of Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet, a novel for adults about Coney Island con artists. Fakers is her first book for young readers.

David Clark is the illustrator of more than fifteen books for children, including Higgins Hole by Kevin Boreen, What's for Dinner? Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World by Katherine B. Hauth (a winner of the New Mexico Book Awards), and Pirate Bob by Kathryn Lasky. He is also the illustrator and co-creator of the syndicated comic strip Barney & Clyde. He lives in Luray, Virginia.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fakers: An Insider's Guide to Cons, Hoaxes, ...
Verlag: Charlesbridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Clark, David
Zustand: Good