Dodger

author: Terry Pratchett

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.89

book published: 2012

rating: 4

read at: 2013/02/14

date added: 2014/01/12

shelves: young-adult

review:

Young Dodger is a tosher, digging about in the sewers of London for coins and jewelry he finds there to scrape out a living. One night he intervenes to save a young lady named Simplicity from a group of men who seek to harm her, and his life is set on a new course.



This is a standalone novel for younger readers by Terry Pratchett, and it weaves a fictional story in mid-1800s England. Dodger finds himself in the right place at the right time during many scenes of the book and is taken interest in by Charles Dickens, as well as Benjamin Disraeli, Robert Peel (head of the famous police called "Peelers), and Angela Burdett-Couts. Along the way, he runs across the famous, and here pitiful, Sweeney Todd. The story weaves a path through a tough time in London's past and does so with some of the trademark Pratchett humor. Lots of fun.





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