Dodger [Paperback]

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett'sDodger, 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.

Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. 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.

From 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.

Dodger is a tosher—a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Victorian London. Everyone who is nobody knows him. Anybody who is anybody doesn't. He used to know his own future; it involved a lot of brick-lined tunnels and plenty of filth. But when Dodger rescues a young girl from a beating, meets Charles Dickens, and encounters Sweeney Todd, things start to getreallymessy.

Now everyone who is anyone wants to get their hands on Dodger. . . .

Superb.Compulsively readable.Lovingly crafted and completely enjoyable. The temptation to quote sentences, whole paragraphs, and possibly entire chapters is almost irresistible.Its a glittering conjuring act, but theres real heart here, too.Pratchett does a bang-up job of re-creating Old London, complete with pathos, humor, and danger, all narrated in Dodgers unique voice.Masterful. Unexpected, drily funny and full of the pathos and wonder of life: Dont miss it.Pratchett weaves fact and fiction seamlessly....Genius.A masterwork from a treasure and hero of a writer, and it will delight you.Ebullient, funny and delightful.Wonderful.Fresh, vibrant and full of energy, a triumph.Masterly and entertaining. (Childrens Book of the Week)PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF TERRY PRATCHETT: Exuberant and irresistible.Fun and fantastic alsh