Her father has been released from jail but has never come back to claim her, which helps her make her decision. It's been hard to find a permanent place with her background and attitude, so she's a bit surprised when she is approached by the marshalls of the Witness Protection Program to join a family. New York City kid Nicki has been in foster care since the death of her grandmother, who taught her how to be a pickpocket. Jake Burt's debut middle-grade novel Greetings from Witness Protection! is as funny as it is poignant.-from the publisher As she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity, Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her family’s security might not lurk on the road from New York to North Carolina, but rather in her own past. Nicki swears she can keep the Trevor family safe, but to do so she’ll have to dodge hitmen, cyberbullies, and the specter of standardized testing, all while maintaining her marshal-mandated B-minus average. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need. The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation’s most notorious criminals. Marshals’ best bet to keep a family alive. Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket.
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