Author(s): Deborah Hopkinson
Format: CD-Audio
No. of Pages: 0
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-04-15
Dimensions: 126 x 146 x 30mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Unabridged
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From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City. Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken parents. While working as a street musician, he meets the boys of the infamous Bandits' Roost, who teach him the art of pickpocketing. Rocco embraces his new life of crime--he's good at it, and it's more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. But when he meets Meddlin' Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl who's determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change. Rocco begins to reexamine his life--and take his future into his own hands.