The great trouble book5/19/2023 ![]() Difficulties thick as the oozy muck on the riverbank seem to bog him down - mudlarking by the Thames to find the odd bit to sell, seeking secure wages from a better job so he can make his secretive payments on time, and avoiding at all costs the odious Fisheye Bill Tyler. ![]() Since ancient times, folks have known that bad air - what they call miasma - is the cause of disease.You name it: measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, and worst of all, the blue death…It’s obvious when you think on it, ain’t it? Bad smells cause bad things.” Eel, age 12, is an orphan in 1854 London. ![]() Poison,” he declared, wiping his forehead. “In this heat? No, I’ll not send you out. As if being an orphan isnt hard enough, Eel is hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, the nastiest man on the streets. ![]() Cooper?” I asked the foreman as I mopped the brewery floor. 1-80 Description As a 'mudlark,' the orphan, Eel, spends his days in the River Thames, searching for odds and ends to sell. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Things have been a lot worse for Eel in the past, he now has a place off of the streets where he can sleep safely and he only goes to the River Thames to dig for things to sell to make ends meet. SLJs Best Books of 2013, Fiction William Allen White Children8217 s Book. “Hot, stinkin’ soup.” “Any errands for later, Mr. 1854: What we now call the Great Trouble began one thick, hot, foul-smelling. Knopf “It’s like breathin’ soup,” Abel Cooper complained, same as he had every morning for a week. ![]() The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, by Deborah Hopkinson ![]()
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