Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Buckley-Archer, Linda

Gideon the cutpurse Linda Buckley-Archer - First U.S. edition. - New York Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006 - ix, 404 pages illustration 24 cm - The Gideon trilogy Book 1 .

Sequel: The time thief. Illustration on endpapers.

Birthday treat -- Peter misses an important telephone call -- Three-cornered hat -- Howl of a wolf -- Breakfast of grilled trout -- Lost in time -- Hospitality of the honorable Mrs. Byng -- Tar man's tale -- Journey begins -- Attack! -- Lord Luxon's tragedy -- Parliament of rocks -- Pandora's box -- Gideon's stratagem -- Pact made in blood -- Two covent gardens -- Queen Charlotte's promise -- Into the net -- Race against time -- Newgate -- Straw men -- Tyburn -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments.

Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.

010 up. Middle School.



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9781416915256

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1760-1820


Time travel--Juvenile fiction
Brigands and robbers--Juvenile fiction
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction
Fantasy fiction--Juvenile fiction
Robbers and outlaws--Fiction
Thieves--Fiction
Father-son relationship--Fiction


Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Juvenile fiction



PZ7.B882338 / Gid 2006

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