num_pages: 320
description: "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 family is caught in the middle of the wizards' battle for power -- and only Howard can save them! 
language: English
title: Archer's Goon
titlecomplete: Archer's Goon
characters: Howard Sykes
genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 4774
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperCollins