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A likely lad

Gillian Avery

1971209 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Holt, Rinehart and Winston · 222 pages · ENGISBN 9780030802911
  • 1971Collins · 223 pages · ENGISBN 9780001848108
  • 1973Armada · ENGISBN 9780006706380
  • 1986Bodley Head · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780370307121
  • 1992Red Fox · 209 pages · ENGISBN 9780099950301
  • 1994Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers · 299 pages · ENGISBN 9780671798673

Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

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