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"Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." --Lloyd Alexander
This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a Boston Globe--Horn Book Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.
This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a Boston Globe--Horn Book Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.
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Leon Garfield (1921-96) was the author of numerous books for children and adults. Smith and Black Jack were his third and fourth books respectively, originally published in 1967 and 1968.
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"Leon Garfield's vivid descriptions and dialog transported me almost bodily . . . Reissuing Leon Garfield's novels is a great gift." -- Suzanne Fisher Staples
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0374467625
- ISBN 13 9780374467623
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages216
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