Everything Hob Took

About this book

High in the Greatwood, the town of Aldermoot hangs from living bridges grown over lifetimes, and the worst sentence anyone can get is to be sent down to the dark forest floor. Hob Quill is eleven, a thief, and very good at it. She keeps a written list of everything she has ever taken. On Lantern Night the oldest bridge in town gives way under the festival crowd. The master grafter who grew it saves a little girl and falls. By morning the Warden has pulled a groundling's knife out of the cut bindings, and Hob's only friend, Tull, is locked up for it. Hob knows exactly who cut that bridge. The Hearing is in nine days. Will she say so?