Will Sparrow's RoadIn his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "oddities," including a dwarf and a cat-faced girl, holding himself apart from the "monsters" and resolving to be on guard against further deceptions. At last Will is forced to understand that appearances are misleading and that he has been his own worst deceiver. The rowdy world of market fairs in Elizabethan England is the colorful backdrop for Newbery medalist Cushman's new comic masterpiece.
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Contents
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| 8 | |
3 in which will earns but is cheated of a supper | 20 |
4 concerning wills attempts to fill his empty belly | 34 |
5 of how will acquires a magic egg a partner and a full belly at last | 41 |
6 encountering oddities and prodigies and various objects of wonder | 54 |
7 gobsmacked by a pig and a monster | 66 |
8 in which will is displaced restored and on the road again | 75 |
14 concerning samuels distress wills new charge and thoughts about ham | 130 |
15 regarding graces trouble and wills reluctance | 144 |
16 about a reluctant return to thievery and a surprising discovery | 154 |
17 in which will grieves a little and learns much | 163 |
18 considering wills decision and its consequences | 174 |
19 how will hatches an entertainment deliverance and trouble | 189 |
20 of master tidballs head and will sparrows feet | 198 |
Back Matter
| 209 |
9 accompanying the oddities | 82 |
10 of an alarm given a nose bloodied and hurtful words spoken | 94 |
11 fetching a juggler and finding him unlikely but true | 101 |
12 encountering latin the fen country and frightful things in the night | 108 |
13 of the creature greymalkin and the girl grace wyse | 120 |
Back Flap | 217 |
Back Cover | 218 |
Spine | 219 |