The Convicts

The Convicts is about a boy named Tom and his father gets sent to prison and, the rest of his family has alot of misfortune. The story takes place in the London streets with a bunch of interesting characters. An interesting chacter is a blind guy that wants tom to dig a hole because his metal detector was going off.
When Tom was digging a bunch of pickpocters mistaken Tom as a smasher which is a person that goes around digging for gold. The picpocketers frame Tom's family for a bunch of crimes around the city. So Tom gets a group of freinds and trys to prove his family is iniscent.


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