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The Devil And His Boy Book Report

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Can you bear the hard life which you have to work at an inn for a long time and then escape not to be killed? This is the book called “The Devil and his Boy” written by the author of the bestseller Anthony Horowits and published in 1998. It is an adventurous and mysterious book set in the period of Queen Elisabeth, England in 1590. This is a story about a little boy who saves Queen Elisabeth I and survives a cruel killer. One Queen Elisabeth I tries to find the magician Dr. Dee to ask about Robert who is an adopted son. She finds that unfortunately he is already dead but his son is still alive in Framingham. And she sends a knight to get his son. Robert’s son is called Thomas Falconer who takes care of the horses at an inn. One day, a strange gentleman whose …show more content…

But then they tell Queen Elisabeth about Tom and the Queen and Tom become friends. My favorite incident is when Tom tries to stop the “Garden Players” to kill the Queen because it shows the fidelity to the Queen. I would recommend this book because it shows us that we never have to lose ourselves. Can you bear the hard life which you have to work at an inn for a long time and then escape not to be killed? This is the book called “The Devil and his Boy” written by the author of the bestseller Anthony Horowits and published in 1998. It is an adventurous and mysterious book set in the period of Queen Elisabeth, England in 1590. This is a story about a little boy who saves Queen Elisabeth I and survives a cruel killer. One Queen Elisabeth I tries to find the magician Dr. Dee to ask about Robert who is an adopted son. She finds that unfortunately he is already dead but his son is still alive in Framingham. And she sends a knight to get his son. Robert’s son is called Thomas Falconer who takes care of the horses at an inn. One day, a strange gentleman whose name is Hawkins comes to the inn and asks the master about

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