City Of Orphans (Australia)/Bogle (USA) (3 books in series)
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review 1: This is a fun book set in a real London at a time when many children are lucky just to get a job as a chimney sweep or an assistant to a bogle catcher. Turns out that there are many kinds of bogles who live in people's homes, out buildings or sewers. Bogles eat children. A child ...
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review 1: I enjoyed reading How To Catch A Bogle a Victorian fantasy novel by Catherine Jinks. Birdie, the heroine, is an apprentice to Alfred the Bogler. She's bogle bait. Bogles are monsters who consume children. The action begins quickly in this one. Readers soon see Alfred and Birdie h...
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review 1: In Victoria England orphans must do the most dangerous and unsavory jobs to survive. Birdie works with Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches and kills monsters for a living. Birdie is used as bait for the monsters who prefer to dine on children, but Birdie enjoys her job. Which is...