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James is chosen to look after the school hamster during the summer, but someone vandalizes his garden and steals the poor little thing. Who's behind the theft? City kids visiting the town or someone closer to home?Tags
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This story focused on the current social 'problem' of outsiders (gypsies are blamed) coming into the UK and making trouble in communities. In reality some people do live in caravans here in Surrey and elsewhere to be nearer to jobs in the London area I guess. This little story's moral showed that things aren't always as they appear to be. Cute. But I couldn't get to the end of it soon enough. Elijah picked it and really enjoyed it.
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191 Works 41,167 Members
Ben M. Baglio was born in New York in 1960, and grew up in a small town in New Jersey. Baglio studied English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he worked as a children's book editor in New York City. Five years later, a job at publishing house in England became available and he moved there to accept the position. Some show more time after that, Baglio decided to try his own hand at writing and created the characters of Mandy Hope and James Hunter. Their adventures became known as the Animal Ark series. The books originally were published in England, under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels, and have since gone on to be published in the USA and translated into 15 languages. There is also a live-action television series based on the books in England. Some of Ben Baglio's titles are The Brave Bunny, Sheepdog In The Snow, and Spaniel in a Stocking. Baglio has also contributed one title, The First Olympics, to the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook series. Baglio also wrote the Horseshoe Trilogies. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Hamster in a Handbasket (Animal Ark) (Animal Ark)
- Original title
- Hamster in a Handbasket (US) (US)
- Alternate titles
- Hamster in a Hamper (UK) (UK)
- Original publication date
- 1996-02-12
- People/Characters
- Mandy Hope
- Important places
- Yorkshire, England, UK
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- Members
- 455
- Popularity
- 67,472
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.33)
- Languages
- 5 — English, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 2
