Book:Dodger

Dodger
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Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	13 September 2012
ISBN	0385619278
Pages	356
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All data relates to the first UK edition.

A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage, in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's . . . Dodger!

In an alternative London, ruled by the young Queen Victoria, an enterprising lad can find adventure and opportunity - if he is very smart, and very, very lucky. Dodger has the brains, the luck - and the cheek - to scrape by on his own.

Everyone knows Dodger, and everyone likes Dodger. Which is a good thing, because life for a boy on the streets is anything but easy. And it's about to get seriously complicated as a simple haircut turns momentous when Dodger unknowingly puts a stop to the murderous barber Sweeney Todd.

From Dodger's encounters with fictional villains to his meetings with Darwin, Disraeli, and Dickens, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking tale of adventure and mystery, unexpected coming-of-age, and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world.

Characters

• Dodger, a tosher (someone who searches in sewers for valuable items).
• Solomon Cohen
• Simplicity
• Grandad
• Joseph Bazalgette
• Angela Burdett-Coutts
• Charles Dickens
• Henry Mayhew
• the Outlander
• Robert Peel
• Disraeli
• Queen Victoria
• Sweeney Todd
• Karl Marx (referenced)

Extras

The special edition from the retailer Waterstones included the additional material: 'The Wise Words of Solomon Cohen.'