In 1870s London, a ten-year-old orphan girl, Birdie AcAdam, becomes the apprentice to Alfred, who traps monsters for a living.Birdie lures the bogles out of their lairs with her sweet songs, and Alfred kills them before they kill her. On the mean streets of Victorian England, hunting bogles is actually less dangerous work than mudlarking for scraps along the vile river Thames (see glossary!).
- ISBN: 9780544087088
- Author: Jinks, Catherine
- Published: 2013 , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Themes: Apprentices, Monsters, Orphans, superstition, Victorian London
- Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 320