"In sixteen hundred and sixty-five there was hardly anyone left alive."
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Spring 1665, London
Sam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage to be his servant. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master’s apprentice, a shoemaker, able to make his own way in the world.
But that was before the plague arrived.
Abandoned by Alice, his master’s maid and the closet thing that Sam’s ever had to a mother, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. The officials call...
"In sixteen hundred and sixty-five there was hardly anyone left alive."
Spring 1665, London
Sam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage to be his servant. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master’s apprentice, a shoemaker, able to make his own way in the world.
But that was before the plague arrived.
Abandoned by Alice, his master’s maid and the closet thing that Sam’s ever had to a mother, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. The officials call it ‘quarantine’. But for Sam it's a death sentence.
Can Sam escape? And even if he does, will he be able to survive on London's ravaged streets?
- ISBN10 140818687X
- ISBN13 9781408186879
- Publish Date 25 April 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black (Childrens books)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English