Skandar and the Unicorn Thief middle grade book Sloane trusts Lucian about as

Sloane trusts Lucian about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body

and on the crest of the International Summer Campaign

this is not one of her best

until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkiller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning bad boy of chess

it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief middle grade book Sloane trusts Lucian about asUnicorns don't belong in fairy tales; they belong in nightmares. So begins Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Soar into a world where unicorns are real and they're deadly. They can only be tamed by the rider who hatches them. Thirteen year old Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider, and the time has finally come for him to take his Hatchery Exam, which will determine whether he is destined to hatch a unicorn egg. But when Skandar is