A very singular guild
By: Catherine Jinks
Series: City of orphans -- book 3; City of orphans -- bk. 3.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781743313091
Subjects: Missing children; Juvenile fiction; Orphans; Monsters; Fiction; History
Description: On the streets of Victorian England, twelve-year-old Ned Roach and his friends lure the demonic creatures living in sewers to the monster catcher, Alfred.
Notes: Includes glossary.
Table of contents: title: Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler. Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. And this means spending a lot of time in the city's murky underground waterways; title: especially when Alfred is hired by the London Sewers Office to stamp out a deadly infestation. But times are changing. As magic and folklore give way to the machine age, Alfred begins to face an uncertain future; title: while Ned and his friends find themselves threatened by an enemy from their past who's even more dangerous than the bogles.