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A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket Cover Image Book

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

Hopkinson, Deborah, (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780385754996
  • ISBN: 038575499X
  • ISBN: 9780385755009
  • ISBN: 0385755007
  • Physical Description: 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
740L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 9 181143.

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Genre: Fiction.

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