Chicken Friend

The Bubble Boy

The Mutation

Horrible Jobs in Ancient Greece and Rome (History's Most Horrible Jobs, 2)

The Madman of Piney Woods

Nevada

School of Fear: The Final Exam (School of Fear, 3)

The Lost Colony: Artemis Fowl

Edinburgh, 1822. Young Robbie is just eight years old when he witnesses his mother’s agonizing pain and then death from the removal of a breast tumor during public surgery at the hands of one savage surgeon, Dr. Knox. The sounds of his mother’s piercing cries haunt Robbie as he and his hapless father and baby sister try to go on.

But life proves bitter when Robbie’s father loses his business and disappears. Years of poverty go by as Robbie cares for his sister in the Edinburgh slums. Fueled by anger and grief, the teenaged Robbie seems to be heading for a life on the wrong side of the law when he helps the men providing “the butcher Knox” with dead bodies for his medical research.

For years, Robbie thinks of Knox as his mother’s killer and wants revenge. He’s convinced that Knox is involved in a murderous trade in bodies for experimentation and plans a confrontation. It will take time to see the motives behind Knox’s corrupt methods. Perhaps there will be a way to give some meaning to his mother’s tragic death after all.

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Chicken Friend

Nicola Morgan, 2005

The Bubble Boy

Stewart Foster, 2016

The Mutation

K. A. Applegate, 1999

Horrible Jobs in Ancient Greece and Rome (History's Most Horrible Jobs, 2)

Robyn Hardyman, 2013

The Madman of Piney Woods

Christopher Paul Curtis, 2014

Nevada

Jason Glaser, William Rowley, 2003

School of Fear: The Final Exam (School of Fear, 3)

Gitty Daneshvari, 2011

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Eoin Colfer, 2006