Joe Rat

Description:

In the dark, dank sewers of Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Street children,  Crime,  Runaways,  Mental illness,  Runaways in fiction,  Street children in fiction,  Great Britain in fiction,  Mental illness in fiction,  Crime in fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction, historical, general,  London (england), fiction,  Runaway children

Places: Great Britain,  London (England)

Times: 1800-1950,  Victoria, 1837-1901