by Geoffrey Kilner · SM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434817111
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«La vocación de Joe Burkinshaw» is the children's and young adult novel by Geoffrey Kilner, published by SM in paperback (169 pages, in Spanish).
In 1830, in Yorkshire, eleven-year-old Joe Burkinshaw works in the Silkworth coal mine. He dreams of another life guided by «The Pilgrim's Progress». After living in a mansion and falling into the hands of a child trafficker, he flees to the woods, where Zorro teaches him to survive and to read, until he finds a new beginning at a blacksmith's home.
It is number 4 in the El Barco de Vapor collection (Red series); the cover indicates the 8th edition.
For readers aged 12 and up, especially those seeking novels with historical settings and themes of overcoming adversity.
