Title The life of a teenage body-snatcher / Doug MacLeod

Published Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Books, 2010

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Description 303 pages ; 20 cm Series Children's Book Council of Australia awards 2011 Summary This is the story of a young man growing up in England in 1828. Thomas Timewell lives a rather sedate life with his mother, but all that changes when he meets a man who steals corpses from cemeteries and sells them to hospitals for dissection. At first reluctantly and later willingly Thomas follows Plenitude, as the man calls himself, through a series of macabre and dangerous escapades that include murderous bodysnatchers, a vengeful teacher, and a mad woman of the moors Notes NSW Premier's reading challenge 7-9 Audience For secondary school age Notes Teacher notes reproduced with permission of Australian Standing Orders/Scholastic The Children's Book Council of Australia, Honour book Subject Body snatching -- Juvenile fiction. Body snatching -- England -- Fiction. Body snatching -- Fiction. Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction. Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award -- Juvenile fiction -- 2011 Death -- Fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. Premier's Reading Challenge -- Year 7 - Year 9 Right and wrong -- Juvenile fiction. Thieves -- Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Body snatching -- Fiction. Grave robbing -- Fiction. Humorous stories. Mystery and detective stories. Teenage boys -- Fiction. SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Ghost stories. Humorous fiction. LC no. 2010681599 ISBN 9780143203919 (paperback)

Other Titles Life of a teenage body snatcher

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