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Hopkinson, Deborah

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

250 pp. | Knopf | September, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84818-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94818-3 $19.99
(2) 4-6 Thirteen-year-old Eel is a "mudlark," gleaning bits of rope, rags, and coal from the River Thames. He's also loading bodies into coffins as cholera has hit London. A parallel story line involves a secret Eel is keeping. Hopkinson constructs a historical novel of Dickensian fashion, with twists and turns, an accumulation of odd coincidences, and an earnest protagonist readers will root for. Reading list, timeline, websites.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013

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