Handful of Thieves (New Windmills) - Hardcover

Bawden, Nina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435121901 ISBN 13: 9780435121907

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 1974

Synopsis

Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother's savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief. Unfortunately their detective work leads them nowhere fast and very soon they decide the best way to track a thief might just be by acting like one themselves. Resorting to cunning of their own, the children find their doings attracting the attention of the police. Can they - a handful of well-meaning thieves - find the criminal and vindicate themselves in the process? Pacy and suspenseful, A Handful of Thieves is another vivid and colourful novel from one of Britain's most inventive children's authors.

About this title

About the Author:

Nina Bawden was one of the UK's best writers for both adults and children. She often used her own childhood experiences in her books - Carrie's War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig.
Nina died in 2012, aged 87.

Synopsis:

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a cheerful, fast-moving tale of how a group of children manage to outwit a seasoned confidence trickster who has robbed an old woman of her savings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0435121901
• ISBN 13: 9780435121907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127