The Whipping Boy
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***A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!"***
**A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep.** "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. **Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat.**
Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat's own dream at once brash and perilous.
***In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, the whipping boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other.***
Award-winning author Sid Fleischman again blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel.
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Oh, to be a prince! To do any sort of mischief and to have a whipping boy to bear the burden of one's punishment...to have servants dress one, to feed one, to clean up after one...What a life!
But, perhaps, the life of a young prince is not the idyllic life others might imagine. For what does the prince, Prince Brat, as he is called by his people, want but to run away from his life. And away he runs, following his whipping boy, Jemmy, into a series of adventures involving cutthroats, kidnapping and ransom, a dancing bear, a hot-potato man, a rat catcher, and a chase down into the sewers.
