Dodger Contributor(s): Pratchett, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062009494 ISBN-13: 9780062009494 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Europe - Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Young Adult Fiction | Humorous - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012022155 |
Lexile Measure: 1210 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 156288 Reading Level: 7.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pratchett, Terry: - Sir Terry Pratchett was the internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books, including his phenomenally successful Discworld series. His young adult novel, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal, and Where's My Cow?, his Discworld book for "readers of all ages," was a New York Times bestseller. His novels have sold more than seventy five million (give or take a few million) copies worldwide. Named an Officer of the British Empire "for services to literature," Pratchett lived in England. He died in 2015 at the age of sixty-six. |