Much loved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett’s Dodger, a Printz Honor Reserve, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in an account of one impressive boy’s rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London.

Seventeen-year-old Dodger is definitely content like a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new globe when he rescues a lady from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in Britain.

From Dodger’s encounter using the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the fantastic article writer Charles Dickens as well as the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine inside a breathtaking accounts of experience and mystery.