This book is part of a book series called Award Illustrated Classics .
This book has been graded for interest at 6+ years.
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Award Publications Ltd .
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Jackie Andrews has had a number of different careers, but all of them to do with books - particularly children's books. She has been a library assistant, a teacher, editorial assistant at Kestrel Books, as well as editor-in-chief of the children's book clubs at Scholastic for fifteen years. She now works freelance as a writer, reviewer and editor of children's books, as well as working part-time for Ragdoll Ltd, and as a reader of manuscripts for various publishers. She has been commissioned to write numerous books over the last ten years, but Fire and Ice is her first venture into writing exactly what she wants!
This book contains the following story:
Oliver Twist
Orphaned Oliver spends nine years in an orphanage before being sent to a workhouse where he is bullied. Desperate to be rid of him the workhouse seek an apprenticeship and Oliver is sent to an undertakers. He falls out with his employers and runs away to London where he joins Fagin's gang of criminals, is caught and accused of pick pocketing but then rescued by kind Mr Brownlow. Unfortunately for Oliver, Fagin won't have that and recaptures him. Whilst on another job Oliver is saved a second time by Mrs Maylie. Fagin - in league with Oliver's (unknown) half brother - seeks to capture him again so his true identity cannot be revealed. But eventually he is outwitted, Oliver is reunited with Mr Brownlow and discovers his true inheritance.
