A Bandit's Tale
The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
Target Audience: 740L
ISBN:
9780385754996
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C Hopkinson | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Hopkinson | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Hopkinson | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C Hopkinson | Blythewood | Children's Fiction | In |
C Hopkinson | Northeast Indoors | Children's Fiction | In |
C Hopkinson | Southeast | Children's Fiction | In |