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You Scoundrel
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781065377306
Publisher: Lollipop Universe
Published: Oct 17 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At five, Jamie wakes from a coma to learn that his parents are dead. The official file says his uncle's address is unknown. It says nothing about the waiting that follows.
At Pike House, Jamie and the other children are hungry, and Mr Pike orders them to steal while calling it contributing. At school, a kind dinner lady, a battered copy of Oliver Twist and the friendship of other children help Jamie find words for what is happening-and the courage to speak.
Speaking up does not get Jamie out. Years later, as he struggles with addiction, a steady volunteer named Thomas helps him begin again. Then Jamie learns what the file left out: his uncle's letters, a trust made from his parents' estate, and the choices that kept them apart.
Jamie cannot recover the childhood he lost. But with the inheritance, he buys the bookshop where he found work, gives it the name Mr Pike once used to shame him, and begins searching for the children he left behind-ready to offer help on their terms.
You Scoundrel is a young adult novel about hunger, neglect, friendship, recovery and the long work of making a life your own.
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