A bandit's tale
Subtitle: the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780385754996; 9780385755009
Subjects: Child abuse; Conduct of life; Child labor; Fiction; Italians; Treatment; Animals; Immigrants; History
Description: 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.