Title: The highwayman's footsteps
Description: In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek vengeance against William's cruel father and the soldiers who killed the girl's parents. Inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem "The Highwayman."
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Brigands and robbers, Fiction, Children's stories, History, Robbers and outlaws, fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century