Highway robbery
By: Kate Thompson
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780370329574
Subjects: Brigands and robbers; Juvenile fiction; Street children; Horses
Description: On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.