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Dodger
By PRATCHETT, Terry
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-200949-4 978-0-06-200950-0 978-0-06-219015-4
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Harper
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School Library Journal
Starred Review on November 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up—The master of humorous fantasy has taken to historical fiction like a London guttersnipe to a large helping of bangers and mash, albeit with a touch of the fantastical. Dodger is an inhabitant of the worst stews of London, who makes a meager living as a tosher, a treasure hunter in the sewers under the city. His fortune changes, literally overnight, when he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2012
Who would have the skill, the sensibility, and the sass to put Charles Dickens into a novel and then proceed to write that novel in full-octane Dickensian style? Terry Pratchett, of course. Like his namesake in Oliver Twist, Dodger is a street urchin (“if you wanted to be a successful urchin you needed to study how to urch”) who makes his way in early-Victorian London as a tosher, a sewer gleaner. One rainy ni...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
