num_pages: 224
description: Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.
language: English
title: A Likely Lad
titlecomplete: A Likely Lad (Bodley Bookshelf Series)
genres: Childrens, Fiction
ratings_count: 21
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
publisher: Bodley Head