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A Bandit's Tale

by Deborah Hopkinson

Ages: 9+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-385-75499-6

Keywords: Child Abuse, City Life, Immigration

In 1880s New York, young immigrant Rocco has to beg and steal in order to survive, but evolves into a social reformer. Vintage photographs and historical sources.