This is top-tch storytelling, full of wit, a colorful cast of rogues, and delectable slang. --Publishers Weekly, starred review of How to Catch a Bogle Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles--until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London, needs a new apprentice. As more and more orphans disappear under mysterious circumstances, Alfred, Jem, and Birdie find themselves waging an underground war in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harcourt Brace and Company
ISBN-10
054408747x
ISBN-13
9780544087477
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208799212
Product Key Features
Author
Catherine Jinks
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,PAPER over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback