Twelve-year-old Rox and her grandmother Mimi sell at a flea market every weekend to supplement the family's only income, that of construction worker and college student, cousin John Martin.
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the hea...
An enchanting story full of humour and heart. I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually, I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention! Told from the perspective of a bully, this book explores themes of bullying and homelessness, while celebrating kindness and friendship.
Oh! We're little gardeners
by Debra Ann Harkins and Mary M William
