Bibliograph

A bandit's tale, the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket, Deborah Hopkinson

Type

Label

A bandit's tale, the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket, Deborah Hopkinson

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

8-12, Brodart

resource.interestGradeLevel

3-7, Brodart

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A bandit's tale

Oclc number

905699701

Responsibility statement

Deborah Hopkinson

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.1, 9.Reading Counts, 6-8, 4.5, 14.

Sub title

the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket

Summary

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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification