When seventeen-year-old Dodger rescues a young woman from two assailants on a dark and dirty London street, he sets in motion events that monumentally change his life. Dodger knows the streets and everyone who lives on them, and he’s used that knowledge to his advantage as a tosher, combing the underground sewer system for stray coins and lost valuables. Now, with the help of writer Charlie Dickens, Dodger works that same social system to investigate the attack on Simplicity and to protect the mysterious young woman from further harm. Along the way he encounters other Victorian notables, real and imagined, including Sir Robert Peel, philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, and infamous barber Sweeney Todd. Deft plotting, vivid scene-setting, and fully developed characters (especially that of his housemate and mentor, Solomon) all help propel the irrepressible Dodger along his path to fulfillment and happiness. (Age 13 and older)

New York Times Bestseller!

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London.

Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.

From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery.

Creator of the popular Discworld fantasy series, Sir Terry also received a prestigious Printz Honor from the American Library Association for his novel Nation.