Street child
By: Berlie Doherty.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; Homeless persons -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Description: A fictional account of the experiences of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in 1860's London and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's "ragged" children.