A pickpocket's tale
By: Karen Schwabach.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Pickpockets -- Fiction; Indentured servants -- Fiction; Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions.