A Likely Lad
by Gillian Avery
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Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.Tags
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Eleven year old Willy Overs lives with his family in a sweetshop in the back streets of Manchester in 1901. When Mr. Overs crushes Willy's hopes of staying on at school, Willy goes on a crazy bicycle ride, ending up in the countryside where he makes some startling discoveries about himself and his family.
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- A Likely Lad
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- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
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