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Author:

Hopkinson, Deborah, author.

Title:

A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket / Deborah Hopkinson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Child labor--Juvenile fiction.
Child abuse--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Italians--New York--New York--Juvenile fiction.
Animals--Treatment--Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.

Summary:

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

ISBN:

0385755007
9780385755009
038575499X
9780385754996

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905699701

LCCN:

2015004491

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