A bandit's tale, the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket, Deborah Hopkinson
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A bandit's tale, the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket, Deborah Hopkinson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A bandit's tale
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Deborah Hopkinson
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
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Creator
Subject
- Animals + Treatment -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Animals + Treatment -- Fiction
- Child labor -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Child labor -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Fiction
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance3
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject14
- Animals + Treatment -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Animals + Treatment -- Fiction
- Child labor -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Child labor -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Fiction
- Content3
- Author1