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The goddaughter / Melodie Campbell.

by Campbell, Melodie, 1955-

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Raven Books, 2012.

Gemologists -- Fiction.

Jewelry theft -- Fiction.

Gangsters -- Fiction.

Organized crime -- Fiction.

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9781459801257 (pbk.)

134 p. ; 19 cm.

Stolen jewels, a cross-country chase and a reluctant mob goddaughter make for a whole lot of laughs. Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately she's also "the Goddaughter," and, as she tells her new friend Pete, "you don't get to choose your relatives." And you can't avoid them when you live in Hamilton and they more or less run the place. When Gina bumps into Pete at the Art Gallery Gala, sparks fly. So do bullets, when her cousin Tony is taken down by rival mobsters from New York. It turns out Tony was carrying a load of hot gems in the heel of his shoe. When Gina is reluctantly recruited to carry the rocks back to Buffalo, the worst happens: they get stolen. Pete and Gina have no choice but to steal them back, even though philandering politicians, shoe fetishists, and a trio of inept goons stand in their way. It's all in a day's work, when you're the Goddaughter. Canadian writer Melodie Campbell has written a follow-up Gina Gallo novel called The Goddaughter's Revenge.

Fry Reading Level: 2.8 Orca Book Publishers.

High interest-low vocabulary books.

Humorous fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Literacy materials.

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