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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 A Cardboard Palace
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'Jorge lives in a shanty town on the outskirts of Paris. Bill, a controller, has an army of child thieves at his command—and Jorge is one of them.

'But soon Jorge faces an even bigger threat.

'His home is to be bulldozed. Where will Jorge sleep? What will happen to his friends, Ada and Gino? Could a burgeoning friendship with Australian chef, Sticky-Ricky, help Jorge to stop Bill and save the army of child-thieves? And will he do it before he loses Ada forever?

'Jorge can’t keep fighting to live—now he must live to fight.

'A harrowing, humbling story about one boy’s desperation to escape a life of crippling poverty. ' (Publication summary)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Rundle Mall/Rundle Street, Adelaide City, Adelaide, South Australia,: MidnightSun , 2017 .
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      Extent: 144p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2017
      ISBN: 9781925227253
Alternative title: Kartongslottet
Language: Swedish
    • Stockholm,
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      Sweden,
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      B. Wahlström ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 192p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 29 March 2018.
      ISBN: 9789132201455

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