Title: Dodger
Description: Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl -- not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett combines high comedy with deep wisdom in this tale of an unexpected coming-of-age and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world. - Publisher.
Subjects: Sweeney Todd (Legendary character), Humorous stories, Love, Adventure and adventurers, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, Conduct of life, History, Historical, Juvenile Wit and humor, Adventure fiction, Street life, Friendship, Sewage, Europe, Barbers, Romance fiction, Jews, Action & Adventure, JUVENILE FICTION, General, Authors, Humorous fiction, Love stories, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, London (england), history, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Love, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Survival Young adult fiction, Young adult historical fiction, Rescues Young adult fiction, nyt:chapter-books=2012-10-14, New York Times bestseller, Adventure stories, English Fantasy fiction, Translated into German, German Fantasy fiction, Translations from English
Places: Great Britain, London (England)
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901