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Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, May 2007
Hardcover, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0689853351
ISBN-13: 9780689853357
Grades: 5 - 8
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Description
It’s 1849, the year John Huffman’s father is sentenced to London’s Whitecross Street Prison. He’s 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, John’s not sure what to believe…or whom.
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