Crookhaven

At Crookhaven, breaking the rules is part of the curriculum. Hidden away from the ordinary world, the school takes in young people with unusual criminal talents and teaches them lock-picking, forgery, deception, infiltration, and other skills most schools would rather keep outside their gates. There is one important condition: what they learn must eventually be used for good.

Gabriel Avery seems made for the place. A gifted thirteen-year-old pickpocket, he has learned to steal because necessity leaves him few alternatives. When he is finally caught, however, punishment never comes. Instead, the mysterious Caspian Crook offers him a place at a school unlike anything Gabriel imagined existed.

Life at Crookhaven soon becomes much more than lessons in thievery. Students compete to prove themselves as accomplished crooks, tackle elaborate Break-In challenges, explore places they were never meant to find, and discover secrets hidden within the school's history. For Gabriel, those mysteries become increasingly personal. Questions about his own family draw him and his friends toward the Nameless, a powerful criminal organization whose idea of stealing could not be further from Crookhaven's peculiar moral code.

Crookhaven consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.