A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket / Deborah Hopkinson.
| Author/creator | Hopkinson, Deborah author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016] |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket flap. |
| Audience | 740 Lexile |
| Awards note | A Junior Library Guild Selection. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2015004491 |
| ISBN | 9780385754996 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 038575499X (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780385755009 (library binding) |
| ISBN | 0385755007 (library binding) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |