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Author: Karen Schwabach Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375849211 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
A perfect Common Core tie-in, A Pickpocket's Tale includes nonfiction backmatter with a historical map of New York City in 1730, a glossary of period vocabulary words, and an explanatory note titled "How Much of This Story Is True?" Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes an indentured servant to a kind Jewish family in New York City, and Molly has it good. So why is it that all she wants to do is go back to London? Karen Schwabach uses richly detailed descriptions and authentic period language to bring history to life. She skillfully explores the subjects of Jewish culture in Colonial America and London street culture in this gritty yet heartwarming debut novel.
Author: Eddie Joseph Publisher: Piccadilly Books, Ltd. ISBN: 0941599183 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 64
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In this book you will discover the secrets of picking pockets for entertainment purposes. Written by a professional magician, the techniques are based on elementary principles of misdirection and sleight-of-hand, which can be easily learned by anyone. Anything that can be carried in a person’s pocket can be secretly removed. This book will show you how. You will be able to remove objects from people’s pockets while talking to them and even up on a stage while a thousand eyes are watching you. You will amaze everybody! You will also learn how to remove wristwatches and articles of clothing without being detected. Many excellent effects for magicians. Produces great comedy. Imagine the expressions on the faces of the audience, and your victim, when you remove his boxer shorts! Great stuff!
Author: Wayne B. Yeager Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited ISBN: 9781559500463 Category : Pickpockets Languages : en Pages : 71
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Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering... now revealed for you to use. Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your need to know with these revealing professional manuals on investigation, crime and police sciences. "It's all here, from the two-finger sang to 'reefing' (a method that utilizes the mark's pocket lining)". -- Reflex If you wonder how someone can get inside your pockets without your knowing, then get inside this book. You'll learn all the techniques of the pickpocket: how they guess which pocket holds the loot, the grab and run, the finesse lift, cutting the pockets, how they use accomplices, how they can steal a watch right off the wrist. Learn how the pros get into your clothes, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Author: Donna Jo Napoli Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780140380378 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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Jimmy, the froglet son of an enchanted frog-prince, tries to save his pond from the evil hag and in the process finds himself transformed into a human boy.
Author: Bronwyn Scott Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 142681402X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 279
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An earl pursues a female bandit and winds up falling for her in this Regency-era romantic suspense. It’s Brandon Wycroft’s duty as the Earl of Stockport to catch the “Cat,” a notorious thief who is stealing from rich local homes to feed the poor. Discovering that the Cat is a woman, he changes his plan of action—to a game of seduction! Mysterious and tempting, she teases him. And, as the net closes around the Cat, Brandon realizes he wants to protect her as well as bed her. But the only way to catch her is to spring the parson’s mousetrap—and make her his countess!
Author: Colin Meloy Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062342479 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 301
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From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets—imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist. It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing robbery. As the young bandits appear to melt into the crowd, Charlie realizes with a start that he himself was one of their marks. Yet Charlie is less alarmed than intrigued. This is the most thrilling thing that’s happened to him since he came to France with his father, an American diplomat. So instead of reporting the thieves, Charlie defends one of their cannons, Amir, to the police, under one condition: he teach Charlie the tricks of the trade. What starts off as a lesson on pinches, kicks, and chumps soon turns into an invitation for Charlie to join the secret world of the whiz mob, an international band of child thieves who trained at the mysterious School of Seven Bells. The whiz mob are independent and incredibly skilled and make their own way in the world—they are everything Charlie yearns to be. But what at first seemed like a (relatively) harmless new pastime draws him into a dangerous adventure with global stakes greater than he could have ever imagined.
Author: Jim Eldridge Publisher: ISBN: 9781407117805 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 158
Book Description
For a friendless boy on the unforgiving London streets, there are no options for a moral life. Henry Moss soon discovers that crime is the only thing that pays, and in the tradition of Oliver Twist he becomes swept up in the dangerous world of pickpockets and fences, haunting dark alleys and unspeakable slums. But even for the most juvenile offenders the law is strict and the penalties harsh. Jim Eldridge returns us to a time when just growing up was a game of survival.
Author: Eddie Joseph Publisher: ISBN: 9781616462161 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 34
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A treatise on the fundamental principle, theory, and practice of picking pockets for magicians. For entertainment purposes only! Removing objects from an audience member is a staple in magic acts, and here magician Eddie Joseph provides the basics of various pickpocket maneuvers (coat pockets, hip pockets, watches, and more). Practice, practice, and don't get caught . . .
Author: Karen Schwabach Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375849211 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
A perfect Common Core tie-in, A Pickpocket's Tale includes nonfiction backmatter with a historical map of New York City in 1730, a glossary of period vocabulary words, and an explanatory note titled "How Much of This Story Is True?" Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes an indentured servant to a kind Jewish family in New York City, and Molly has it good. So why is it that all she wants to do is go back to London? Karen Schwabach uses richly detailed descriptions and authentic period language to bring history to life. She skillfully explores the subjects of Jewish culture in Colonial America and London street culture in this gritty yet heartwarming debut novel.
Author: Karen Schwabach
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