{"product_id":"9780141355214-smith","title":"Smith","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLondon street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-pocket. One day on Ludgate Hill, he robbed an old gentleman, and one minute later watched him silently murdered by two men, who chased him for the document he had stolen but could not understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePuffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: \u003cb\u003eA Puffin Book\u003c\/b\u003e. There are 20  titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-pocket. One day on Ludgate Hill, he robbed an old gentleman, and one minute later watched him silently murdered by two men, who chased him for the document he had stolen but could not understand. \u003cbr\u003eSmith artfully dodges the two men and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeon Garfield\u003c\/b\u003e was a British novelist, born in 1921.  He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Stories -\u003c\/i\u003e retellings of Shakespeare's plays for children, and he won many awards including the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. He died in 1996, aged 74.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso available in \u003cb\u003eA Puffin Book\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian  \u003cbr\u003eCHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White   \u003cbr\u003eTHE BORROWERS by Mary Norton\u003cbr\u003eSTIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King\u003cbr\u003eROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor\u003cbr\u003eA DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce\u003cbr\u003eGOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams\u003cbr\u003eCARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden\u003cbr\u003eMRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O'Brien\u003cbr\u003eA WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle\u003cbr\u003eTHE CAY by Theodore Taylor\u003cbr\u003eTARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson\u003cbr\u003eWATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams\u003cbr\u003eSMITH by Leon Garfield\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende\u003cbr\u003eANNIE by Thomas Meehan\u003cbr\u003eTHE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56463645049206,"sku":"9780141355214","price":7.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32396527.jpg?v=1760585432","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141355214-smith","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}