Smith Award-winning author by Leon Garfield (author) and Kenny McKendry (illustrator) (UK edition)

Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.

London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-pocket. One day on Ludgate Hill, he robbed an old gentleman, and one minute later watched him silently murdered by two men, who chased him for the document he had stolen but could not understand.
Smith artfully dodges the two men and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed.

Leon Garfield was a British novelist, born in 1921. He is best known for children’s historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books including Shakespeare’s Stories – retellings of Shakespeare’s plays for children, and he won many awards including the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. He died in 1996, aged 74.

Also available in A Puffin Book:
GOODNIGHTMISTERTOM and BACKHOME by Michelle Magorian
CHARLOTTE’S WEB, STUARTLITTLE and THETRUMPET OF THESWAN by E. B. White
THEBORROWERS by Mary Norton
STIG OF THEDUMP by Clive King
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor
A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce
GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams
CARRIE’S WAR by Nina Bawden
MRSFRISBYANDTHERATS OF NIMH by Richard C O’Brien
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L’Engle
THECAY by Theodore Taylor
TARKATHEOTTER by Henry Williamson
WATERSHIPDOWN by Richard Adams
SMITH by Leon Garfield
THENEVERENDINGSTORY by Michael Ende
ANNIE by Thomas Meehan
THEFAMILYFROMONEENDSTREET by Eve Garnett