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A bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket / Deborah Hopkinson.

Author: Hopkinson, Deborah.

Physical Description290 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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