Before they know it, the Peculiars are on the case, fighting for those who no one else will fight for. Tills parents visit the Peculiars hoping for some help. Children that the police wouldnt care to look for. It takes Till, and other of the mudlarks, too. A monster has been spotted really a mechanical octopus operated by one of a diabolical band of Victorian villains. Till is a mudlark, a child so poor she joins other children to drench through the waterfront to discover anything that might be of value. She and Sheba take a shine to one another, but unbeknownst to Sheba, Till goes missing the very next day. One day, a poor girl named Till sneaks into the show. Now Sheba finds herself part of a new sideshow, which isnt that much better until she realizes this odd lot offers her friendship shes never known. Soon shes purchased by a man named Plumpscuttle who takes her to London with his band of Peculiars, an odd lot consisting of Gigantus, a giant of a man, Sister Moon, a girl ninja with catlike eyes and reflexes, Mama Rat and her circus of performing rats. If I were her, Id learn how to pick locks, too. She knows nothing about where she came from, and life consists of a cage at the end of the pier where shes a two-bit sideshow. The winner of the Fourth Annual Chicken House/ London Times fiction contest is an imaginative mystery called Freaks, by debut author Kieran Larwood.įirst we meet Sheba, part girl, part wolf.
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