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Street Child
By Doherty, Berlie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-53106-864-9
- Publisher
- New York : Orchard Books, 1994.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1994
Gr 5-8 Set in Victorian England, this story of life on the streets has enough action to keep children reading. The book opens with Jim's desperately poor, fatherless family being evicted; within a day his sisters are in domestic service, his mother is dead, and Jim is on his own. After a year in the workhouse, he escapes. Eating and sleeping where and when he can, he is more or less sold to a cruel taskmaster with a coal boat, who reacts to Jim's attempt to flee by tying a rope around his neck. Ever resourcef...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
