New York Times Bestseller! Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett s Dodger a Printz Honor Book combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy s rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger s encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. Creator of the popular Discworld fantasy series Sir Terry also received a prestigious Printz Honor from the American Library Association for his novel Nation.