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Street Child

by Berlie Doherty

Ages 9–12 Reading age 10 Novel Set in the past movingthoughtful

Victorian London. After his mother dies, Jim is put in a workhouse, separated from his sisters, and sold to a brutal man with a coal barge.

A story about children and a grown-up villain, moving and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 9–12, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.

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