With its spirit of adventure, Bookweirder courts new readers and keeps Malcolm and Norman's devoted fans captivated.

Norman Jespers-Vilnius is stuck in the sleepy British countryside with his parents and ultra-irritating sister. Things couldn't be duller — until Norman finds himself in the middle of the adventure story he discovered in the house's dusty library. Soon Norman is making strange new allies and stranger new enemies as struggles to rescue his best friend Malcolm the Prince of Stoats from another book gone wrong. Can Norman save Malcolm and steer the novel back on track? Can he hide his adventures in bookweird from his suspicious mother and the meddlesome Fuchs? Before we find out, we follow Norman on a chilling trip to 19th-century Paris, a fiery medieval adventure and, finally, a mission to discover the family secret at the heart of bookweird.


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Praise for Bookweird:
"Brilliant . . . . The book's oddities, its strange sense of play, also come with an emphasis on heroism and a dash of paradox. What a delicious concept Bookweird is, and what a fantastic writer we have in Paul Glennon."
— Globe and Mail

"Boys have trouble finding anything they care about between the covers of a book. Ottawa author Paul Glennon has a solution. Give 'em books filled with boy appeal--blood, guts and glory. . . . Glennon does a fine job in keeping the story moving, and he's terrific at family dynamics."
— The Ottawa Citizen


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PROLOGUE
THE FOLLY
NORMAN, IN THE LIBRARY, WITH A BOOK
INTREPID AMONGST THE GYPSIES
THE ROOK AND THE POACHER
THE INTREPIDS GO TO LONDON
A MORNING CONVERSATION
IN THE CAGE
MR. TODD, SOLICITOR
FLASHLIGHTS
THE RAID
HOME AWAY FROM HOME
ALL-NEW INTREPIDS!
THE NEW MASTER OF KELMSWORTH
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE SIEGE OF FOLLY
A DEAL WITH THE FOX
MY FAVOURITE BOOK IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
A SECRET IN THE LIBRARY
MORE SECRETS IN THE LIBRARY
MALCOLM ALONE
THE CHAMBERS OF HUGH MONTCLAIR
ESCAPE FROM THE CRUSADES
THE POACHER POACHED
THE INTREPID FIVE


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PAUL GLENNON is the author of The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and was selected as one of the Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books of the Year. He lives in Ottawa, where he works in the software industry.


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