Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens' <i>Oliver Twist</i> has captured readers' hearts for more than 150 years. Today's children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity ... and through his goodness, he finds salvation.
