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The notorious inhabitants of London's criminal underworld are all in a day's work for Mog, the young printer's apprentice, who prints their WANTED posters. But then a real-life meeting with a genuine convict entangles Mog in a secret scheme that has all the crooks of the city at each others' throats.

An ingenious theft, a series of mistaken identities, and a chilling murder all connect to a ship just docked from India, and Mog's own mysterious past... Evoking Philip Pullman, Caleb Carr, and Charles Dickens, first-time writer Paul Bajoria's original voice and vivid, suspenseful storytelling will enchant young readers.

The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz

Zia by Scott O'Dell

The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman

The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman

Smith by Leon Garfield

Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman

The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt

Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi

Black Jack by Leon Garfield

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

The Vandemark Mummy by Cynthia Voigt

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Go Saddle the Sea by Joan Aiken