A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

by Deborah Hopkinson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038575499X
• ISBN13: 9780385754996
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7