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Title: CORAM BOY
By: Jamila Gavin
Format: Paperback

List price: £7.99
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ISBN 10: 1405212829
ISBN 13: 9781405212823
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Stock: Currently 66 items in stock
Publisher: EGMONT CHILDRENS BOOKS
Pub. date: 6 May, 2004
Pages: 384
Description: Doomed babies entrusted to the care of a villain...children sold as slaves, an aristocrat's son disinherited when he refuses to give up a career in music - all these stories come together in this amazing story of adventure. Ages 10+.
Synopsis: Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers, promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. When Melissa, beloved of Alexander Ashbrook and daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him, her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child, telling Melissa it was stillborn. Alexander, not knowing Melissa's condition, has fled his home for a career in music. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby, Aaron, and he grows up with Toby, the son of an African slave, inseparable friends. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn, who is, in fact, Otis. When Mish sees Aaron and Alexander together, and realises the family link, he takes Aaron and Toby to Otis, who rejects them. A way must be found to rescue them, but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited.
Reader Age: From 10 To 99
Publication: UK
Imprint: Egmont Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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