Street Child (Essential Modern Classics): Encourage your students to think about the issues of homelessness with this gripping real-life drama (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics) (Paperback)

Berlie Doherty (Author)

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Street Child (Essential Modern Classics): Encourage your students to think about the issues of homelessness with this gripping real-life drama (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics)

Street Child (Essential Modern Classics): Encourage your students to think about the issues of homelessness with this gripping real-life drama (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics)

£6.99 £4.00

Street Child (Essential Modern Classics): Encourage your students to think about the issues of homelessness with this gripping real-life drama (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics)

£6.99 £4.00

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?

  • Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
  • ISBN: 9780007311255
  • Pages: 208
  • Weight: 0.210
Berlie Doherty writes novels, plays, stories, poetry and opera libretti for adults and children of all ages, and is translated into over twenty languages. She has written over 60 books, including her best-selling Street Child and much-loved Blue John. Several of her novels have been dramatised for radio, television and the stage. She has won many awards including the Carnegie Medal twice (Dear Nobody and Granny was a Buffer Girl), and the Writers’ Guild award twice. (Dear Nobody and Daughter of the Sea), received a Boston Globe-Horn Honor, and was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren award. She has received an Honorary Doctorate and has travelled the world speaking at literature festivals. Her subjects cover many different genres, from folk and fairy tales, ghost stories and love stories, fantasy and historical fiction to enduring contemporary family novels. She was born in Liverpool and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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