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'Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler Alfred Bunce, who kills the child-eating monsters that lurk in the city's cellars and sewers. But Alfred is keen to give up bogling, since he almost lost his last apprentice, Birdie.
'When numerous children start disappearing around Newgate Prison, Alfred and Jem do join forces, waging an underground war. They even seek help from Birdie, dragging her away from the safe and comfortable home she's found with Miss Edith Eames. Together they learn that there's only one thing more terrifying than facing a whole plague of bogles - and that's facing some of the sinister people from Jem's past ...' (Publisher's blurb)
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Steampunk note: Series of stories set in an alternate nineteenth century London in which orphans and street-urchins vie with poverty and mythical creatures for survival. The final volume also begins to highlight more heavily the impact of technological advancement.
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Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also braille.
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 28 no. 3 2013; (p. 36-37)
— Review of A Very Peculiar Plague 2013 single work children's fiction
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[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 28 no. 3 2013; (p. 36-37)
— Review of A Very Peculiar Plague 2013 single work children's fiction
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