Awards and Honors<i>Booklist</i> 2013 Lasting Connections, Language Arts; <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Books of 2013, Children’s Fiction; <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Children’s Books of 2013; <i>Booklist</i> Editor’s Choice: Books for Youth, 2013, Fiction; ALA 2014 Notable Children’s Books, Middle Readers; <i>Booklist</i>Top 10 Books for Youth 2014, SF/Fantasy/Horror
With all the child-eating monsters cropping up around Victorian London, Alfred the Bogler and his apprentice, orphan Birdie McAdam, have their hands full. Glossary. Black-and-white illustrations.