A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket

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Label

A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket

Title remainder

the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Hopkinson

Title variation

bandits tale

Title variation remainder

the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket

Creator

• trueHopkinson, Deborah
• Hopkinson, Deborah

Author

• Hopkinson, Deborah

Subject

• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
• truePreteen boys
• trueHistorical fiction
• Italians -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile fiction
• Italians -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Immigrants -- Fiction
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
• true1880s -- 1880 -- 1889
• trueNew York city -- History -- 19th century
• Child labor -- Juvenile fiction
• Child labor -- Fiction
• trueAnimal welfare
• trueBoy immigrants
• Animals -- Treatment -- Fiction
• Child abuse -- Fiction
• Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
• Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• trueEleven-year-old boys
• trueImmigrants, Italian
• truePickpockets
• trueChild labor

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

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

Theme

• trueImmigrant experiences

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueConversational

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

740

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.H778125

LC item number

Ban 2016

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740

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent