Will Sparrow's Road

Will Sparrow's Road
ISBN-10
0547739621
ISBN-13
9780547739625
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Karen Cushman

Description

In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.

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