Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive...more
Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk.From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world...more
"When a poet like Ms. Holman writes prose, the effects are still lyric, and she has made full use of her talents in creating this novel of a troubled boy . . . skillfully told, forceful, and heartening."--Publishers Weekly. ALA Notable Children's Book; ALA Best Book for Young Adults; ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults; The Horn Book Fanfar...more
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been era...more
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiance. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone, too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been e...more
When businessman Richard Mayhew tries to help a young homeless girl one evening, she pulls him into "London Below," a magical world where those who have slipped through society's cracks live in sewers and abandoned tunnels.
Cultures converge, generation gaps close, and language barriers are broken when an English-speaking girl, a Spanish-speaking man, and a Polish-speaking woman join forces to save a sparrow trapped in their subway car. Reprint. SLJ. K.
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