The Traitors' Gate
1st Edition
Published on 11. May 2010
368 pages
978-1-4391-3219-7 (ISBN)
Description
It's 1849, the year John Huffman's father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison. He's been put away for gambling debt?leaving fourteen-year-old John and his family out on the street. But it seems gambling is the least of their problems: Father Huffman is accused of treason. Surrounded by a cast of sinister and suspicious characters, John's not sure what to believe...or whom.
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Avi is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery medal winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead. He has won two Newbery Honors and many other awards for his fiction. He lives with his family in Colorado. Visit him at Avi-Writer.com.
Karina Raude lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The Traitors' Gate
is the first book she has illustrated.
Karina Raude lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The Traitors' Gate
is the first book she has illustrated.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Other Front
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1 I Introduce Myself
- CHAPTER 2 I Return to My Family
- CHAPTER 3 My Family's Fortunes Fall
- CHAPTER 4 I Learn About a Sponging House
- CHAPTER 5 We Arrive at the Halfmoon Inn
- CHAPTER 6 Mr Tuckum Speaks to Me Privately
- CHAPTER 7 Father Makes a Request of Me
- CHAPTER 8 I Receive More Requests
- CHAPTER 9 I Go Out at Dawn
- CHAPTER 10 I Set Off to Visit Lady Euphemia
- CHAPTER 11 I Meet Lady Euphemia
- CHAPTER 12 I Gaze Upon the Traitors' Gate
- CHAPTER 13 I Go to the Naval Ordinance Office
- CHAPTER 14 I Meet a Mysterious Man
- CHAPTER 15 I Am Confronted by the Ragged Girl
- CHAPTER 16 I Wonder About Father
- CHAPTER 17 I Hear an Odd Story
- CHAPTER 18 I Enter the Den of the Red Lion
- CHAPTER 19 I Seek Advice
- CHAPTER 20 I Learn of Mr Farquatt's Proposal
- CHAPTER 21 I Sit in Darkness
- CHAPTER 22 I Overhear a Private Meeting
- CHAPTER 23 I Return to Lady Euphemia
- CHAPTER 24 I Have a CuriousEncounter
- CHAPTER 25 I Hear Father Proclaim His Fate
- CHAPTER 26 I Attend the Queen's Bench Court
- CHAPTER 27 I Learn News of Mr Farquatt
- CHAPTER 28 I Confront More Riddles
- CHAPTER 29 I Have More Questions
- CHAPTER 30 I Visit Whitecross Street Prison
- CHAPTER 31 I Learn the Truth
- CHAPTER 32 I Look Beneath the Stone
- CHAPTER 33 I Visit the Rookery of St Giles
- CHAPTER 34 I Meet Mr Nottingham
- CHAPTER 35 I Go to the Church of All Hallows by the Tower
- CHAPTER 36 I Return to Whitecross Street Prison
- CHAPTER 37 I Hear Sary's Astonishing Story
- CHAPTER 38 I Receive an Invitation from Mr Tuckum
- CHAPTER 39 Make More Discoveries
- CHAPTER 40 I Decide Upon a Plan of Action
- CHAPTER 41 I Discover the Real Traitor
- CHAPTER 42 I Meet with Sergeant Muldspoon
- CHAPTER 43 I Am Amazed
- CHAPTER 44 I AmAlone
- CHAPTER 45 I Makean Astounding Discovery
- CHAPTER 46 I Follow the Traitor Through the Gate
- CHAPTER 47 I See an End to It . Almost
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
