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Author Buckley-Archer, Linda.

Title Gideon the cutpurse : being the first part of The Gideon trilogy / Linda Buckley-Archer.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Buckle Gid 2006    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description ix, 404 pages ; 24 cm.
age Children
Series The Gideon trilogy ; bk. 1
Buckley-Archer, Linda. Gideon trilogy ; bk. 1.
Note Sequel: The time thief.
Audience 010 up.
Summary Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
Contents Birthday treat -- Peter misses an important telephone call -- Three-cornered hat -- Howl of a wolf -- Breakfast of grilled trout -- Lost in time -- Hospitality of the honorable Mrs. Byng -- Tar man's tale -- Journey begins -- Attack! -- Lord Luxon's tragedy -- Parliament of rocks -- Pandora's box -- Gideon's stratagem -- Pact made in blood -- Two covent gardens -- Queen Charlotte's promise -- Into the net -- Race against time -- Newgate -- Straw men -- Tyburn -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments.
Audience Middle School.
960 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader 6.3.
Reading Counts! 6.4.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.
Time travel.
Brigands and robbers -- Juvenile fiction.
Brigands and robbers.
Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons.
Fantasy fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Novels.
ISBN 1416915257
9781416915256