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1. The Whipping Boy By Sid Fleischman

2. Prince Brat was always misbehaving and always needing to be punished; however, he cannot be spanked because it was not acceptable to spank the members of the royal family. Instead, Jemmy was taken from the streets of London and served as the Whipping Boy, receiving all of the spankings that the Prince deserved. Prince Brat mistreated everyone, including Jemmy. Jemmy decided that he would run away, and, on the night he was leaving, he was stopped by the Prince who demanded that he would go with Jemmy. Together the two of them are on the streets of London whenever they are kidnapped. Finally realizing that one of the boys is the Prince, the kidnappers demand a ransom. The boys escape through the sewers of London. Prince Brat suddenly found that he needed Jemmy, not as a whipping boy but as someone whom he could trust with his life.

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