Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket by Garfield, Leon

Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590176757)

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Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket by Garfield, Leon

Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket

$15.95
Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket by Garfield, Leon

Smith: The Story of a Pickpocket

$15.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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A Carnegie Medal Honor Book

Twelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as footsteps ring out from the alley by which he had planned to make his escape, finds himself in a tough spot. Taking refuge in a doorway, he sees two men emerge to murder the man who was his mark. They rifle the dead man's pockets and finding them empty, depart in a rage. Smith, terrified, flees the scene of the crime. What has he stolen that is worth the life of a man?

Smith is a gripping, engrossing, and utterly diverting tale of high adventure related by a writer whose scintillating style is matched only by the dazzle of his plotting. In the words of Lloyd Alexander, "Garfield is unmatched for sheer exciting storytelling. The reader simply can't stop reading him."

Author: Leon Garfield
ISBN-10: 1590176758
ISBN-13: 9781590176757
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2013
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.54w x 0.78d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 42812 / Smith


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 77 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Leon Garfield
By Leon Garfield
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Leon Garfield (1921-1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family's fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children's books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children's Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).

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