Publisher's Synopsis
"Please, sir, I want some more!" When Oliver Twist, a half-starved orphan, does the unthinkable and dares to ask for more to eat, his hard life at the workhouse is over. But will his next placement - as an undertaker's apprentice - be any happier? In this retelling of the opening chapters of Dickens's classic, young readers discover the cruel but colourful world of nineteenth century England as. Oliver searches for a new home.