![]() Some language for a slightly older audience than his other books, but a good read otherwise." My biggest complaint was the many anachronisms & name-dropping readers might not even be familiar with which Pratchett tidily cleans up in an afterword. "A fan of Pratchett since I discovered Tiffany Aching & the Wee Free Men (especially on audio), this book didn't disappoint, though it took place in the somewhat real world of mid-1900's London. ![]() But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.įrom Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. ![]() Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. ![]()
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