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200 pp.
| Delacorte |
April, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-385-73087-X$15.95
|
LibraryISBN 0-385-90109-7$17.99
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4-6
In this vivid novel set in nineteenth-century England, narrator Tom Tin, fourteen, is charged with murder and taken in chains to a grounded prison ship for boys. Lawrence matches the inventiveness of his villains and martyrs with plot twists that include death and brutality aboard the ship and Tom's fateful trip on a ruined slaver bound for Australia.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2005