Then, in my old age, he can tend me.”īy the time Hans is 13, he’s rebelling at the thought of becoming a grave robber himself. A few years more, he’ll be able to dig and tunnel and cart my gear. “In no time, the brat will be walking, talking,” Knobbe thinks. Rather than abandoning the boy, he decides to name him Hans and raise him as his own. Expecting treasure, he’s disappointed to find a baby within. The novel begins with Knobbe the Bent, a grave robber, discovering a chest on a beach after a storm. The Grave Robber’s Apprentice is funny, imaginative, just thrilling enough, and doesn’t take itself too seriously. With his latest novel, Toronto author and playwright Allan Stratton swerves sharply away from the finely observed realism of his previous YA novels (including 2005’s acclaimed Chanda’s Secrets) to arch, winning fantasy.
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