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A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket
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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 c...
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.
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- Creator
- Deborah Hopkinson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Edition
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780385754996, 038575499X, 9780385755009, 0385755007, 9780385755016
- OCLC
- ocn905699701
- "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket flap.
Subjects
- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Child labor -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Child abuse -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Immigrants -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Animals -- Treatment -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
- Child labor -- Juvenile fiction.
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction.
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
- Animals -- Treatment -- Juvenile fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.