The Whipping Boy
About this book
***A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!"***
**A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep.** "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. **Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat.**
Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat's own dream at once brash and perilous.
***In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, the whipping boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other.***
Award-winning author Sid Fleischman again blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel.
Subjects
- action & adventure
- adventure
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure fiction
- adventurers
- adventure stories
- aventuras
- award:nēnē_award
- book
- boys, fiction
- brigands
- brigands and robbers
- chapter books
- chapters
- children
- childrens
- children's fiction
- classics
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- friendship
- historical fiction
- humor
- humorous stories
- juvenile
- juvenile fiction
- kid's
- ladrones y proscritos
- large type books
- literature
- middle grade
- newbery medal
- newbery medal, 1987
- newbery medal winner
- orphans
- outlaws
- princes
- robbers
- robbers and outlaws
- robbers and outlaws, fiction
- slavery, fiction
- social themes
- teenagers
- teens
- thieves
- tweens
- winner
- ya
- young adult