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Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones (Hardcover, 2013)

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Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones

A fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London.

BEHOLD THE SAVAGE SPECTACLE OF THE WILD BOY - ONE PENNY A KICK! Wild Boy has been covered in hair since birth; he s the missing link, a monster, a sideshow spectacle. Condemned to life in a travelling freakshow, excluded from society and abused by his master, he takes refuge in watching people come and go at the fair - and develops a Sherlock Holmes style talent for observation and detection. But when there's a murder, suspicion turns on Wild Boy, and he and the feisty redhaired acrobat Clarissa Everett find themselves on the run from a London-wide manhunt.

Together, the detective and the acrobat must solve clues to identify the real killer, confronting the sinister underside of scientific advancement and the darkness of Wild Boy s own nature.

About the Author

Rob Lloyd Jones never wanted to be a writer when he grew up. He wanted to be Indiana Jones. So he studied Egyptology and archaeology, and went on expeditions to strange places. But all he found were interesting stories. So he decided to write them down. Wild Boy is his first novel, although he's written around thirty other books for children, including historical non-fiction and adaptations of classics such as Jekyll and Hyde. He lives in London (SW2) with his wife and one-year-old son, who has big eyes like Wild Boy, but is not as hairy.

Format: Hardback | 312 pages

Dimensions (cm): 20.5 x 13.4 x 2.6 | 376g

Publication Date: 04 Apr 2013

Publisher: Walker Books

Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom

Language: English

Edition Number: 1

ISBN10: 140634138X

ISBN13: 9781406341386

Condition: Good

A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks at the base of the spine, but no holes or tears. Not certain if this edition comes with a dust jacket, but this copy does NOT have the dust jacket included. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.