She hated department stores—mostly because she’d gotten caught stealing from several of them.

Well, not exactly caught, and not exactly stealing.

She’d talked salesmen into giving her computers, new boots, a gold ring, once even a lawn mower, though she had no idea why she wanted one. She never kept the stuff. She just did it to get her dad’s attention. Usually she talked her neighborhood UPS guy into taking the stuff back. But of course the salesmen she duped always came to their senses and called the police, who eventually tracked her down.

The Lost Hero, Chapter XXVII