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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
They are the same age and they look alike. Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference is becomes all too clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and roles.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"On an autumn day, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, two boys were born in England, one to a poor family by the name of Canty who lived in Offal Court, not far from London Bridge, and the other to a wealthy and high-placed family by the name of Tudor. Young Tom Canty, unwanted, unloved, began his day-dreaming early in order to forget the petty stealing to which he was forced by his cruel rogue of a father--and the royal Court and young...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Mark Twain's story in which young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.
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