Beck Cover:Hardcover We created Tiny Travelers to

We created Tiny Travelers to foster curiosity

Mommy is gone

Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood

and the party starts when she arrives

the son of a Dutch engineer

Beck Cover:Hardcover We created Tiny Travelers toFrom Carnegie Medalwinning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming of age adventure, both harrowing and life affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to work on a farm, from which he eventually escapes. Finally in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward, crossing