Title A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket / Deborah Hopkinson.

Publication Info.	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
	©2016

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA Fic Hopkin Ban 2016	Available	---		Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.

Edition	First edition.
Description	290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
	age Children
Note	"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket flap.
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.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Provenance	Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject	Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
	Conduct of life.
	Child labor -- Juvenile fiction.
	Child labor.
	Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction.
	Child abuse.
	Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
	Immigrants.
	Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
	Italians.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction.
	Animal welfare.
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	National Book Committee.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Animals -- Treatment.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
	History.
	Juvenile works.
	Fiction.
ISBN	9780385754996 (hardcover)
	038575499X (hardcover)
	9780385755009 (library binding)
	0385755007 (library binding)
	9780385755016 (ebook)