Archer’s Goon

Children's Siblings Books

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

“Face the facts! This town is run by seven megalomaniac wizards!” When Howard Sykes comes home to find a giant thug — the Goon — in the kitchen, life turns upside down. Archer, one of seven siblings who control everything in their town from electricity to the police, has sent the Goon to collect the two thousand words Howard’s father owes him. Suddenly, the Sykes famil….Read More

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