Street Child, Berlie Doherty
Street Child, Berlie Doherty
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Street Child

Author: Berlie Doherty

Narrator: Antonia Beamish

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/16/2016

Synopsis

The unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children’s homes. When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Struggling to survive, Jim finally finds some friends… only to be snatched away and made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick, constantly guarded by his vicious dog, Snipe. Will Jim ever manage to be free?

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Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small

I have been reading this book with my class at school as a guided reading book and found it very interesting and realistic to the time period in London that it is set. Street Child is a boy called Jim's story. Jim looses his mother, gets separated from his sisters and finds himself in a workhouse. Ji......more

Goodreads review by Emma

This book follows a young boy named Jim who is found homeless in London after the death of his mother. The book begins with Jim living with his mother and two sisters, but it becomes clear very early that the family do not have much money and are asked to leave the small room that they share after f......more

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