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y separately published work icon The Boy Who Steals Houses single work   novel   young adult  
Alternative title: The Boy Who Steals Houses | The Girl Who Stole His Heart
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Boy Who Steals Houses
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'Can two broken boys find their perfect home? By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story.

'Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he’s ever known. Now Sam’s trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he’s caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing -- each teenager assuming Sam is a friend of another sibling. Sam finds himself inextricably caught up in their life, and falling for the beautiful Moxie.

'But Sam has a secret, and his past is about to catch up with him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Notes

  • Drews released two self-published sequels to The Boy Who Steals Houses. The first sequel - The Kings of Nowhere - was released in serialised form via Patreon in 2022. The third novel - The House for Lost Things - was released in serialised form via Patreon in 2023. 

    Source: Paper Fury | creating Books | Patreon

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Autism.
    Type of character Secondary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Orchard Books ,
      2019 .
      image of person or book cover 5254061920593172255.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 368p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 4 April 2019.

      ISBN: 9781408349922, 9781408349939 (ebook), 1408349930 (ebook)
Alternative title: Мальчик, который крадёт дома
Language: Russian
    • c
      Russia,
      c
      c
      Former Soviet Union,
      c
      Eastern Europe, Europe,
      :
      Поляндрия ,
      2021 .
      image of person or book cover 3632857061757050067.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 351p.p.
      ISBN: 9785604606735, 1408349922

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Sound recording.
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