The Pocket Watch Gang

A daring adventure can change your life forever

Four friends with two things in common: three dollars and a burning desire to see the world. For four friends who live on one of the endless Louisiana bayous in early 1900s America, the 1,000-page Walker & Dawn Catalogue is the gateway to a world of hopes. So, when they find three silver dollars, they order an automatic revolver. But when the package arrives, it contains only a broken pocket watch.
When a stranger shows up to get the watch back and chases the kids, they decide to run away to Chicago, where the Walker & Dawn headquarters is, to return the watch and get a reward. However, they soon become entangled in a mysterious cold case: Miss Dawn, the catalogue’s inventor, was murdered by her lover on New Year’s Eve 1899. Just before she died, she hid all her wealth, and it’s never been found.
The pocket watch turns out to be the missing link to finding the treasure. It’s the key to opening a locker at Chicago’s Grand Central Station. A locker that’s been waiting for years to reveal its secrets.

• “A tale of adventure, travel and escape. a coming-of-age story that rattles through a highly entertaining series of misunderstandings and mysteries which are cleverly unravelled in a talented piece of storytelling.”
• Winner of the italian Andersen Prize 2017. Finalist at Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in Germany in 2018. Winner of the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine in France and The Vlag and Wimpel in the Netherlands in 2019. Winner of the 2022 Literatura Protagonista Jove Prize in Catalonia.