Product Details
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, May 2007
Hardcover, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0689853351
ISBN-13: 9780689853357
Grades: 5 - 8
Its 1849, the year John Huffmans father is sentenced to Londons Whitecross Street Prison. Hes been put away for gambling debt—leaving fourteen-year-old John and his family out on the street. But it seems gambling is the least of their problems: Father Huffman is accused of treason. Surrounded by a cast of sinister and suspicious characters, Johns not sure what to believe or whom.