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This series offers a new abridgement of Berlie Doherty's award-winning novel Street Child in 10 episodes. The story is a fictionalised account of the early life of Jim Jarvis - the child identified by Dr Barnardo as the reason for opening his first home for children.
Victorian London. Jim's family have fallen on hard times and can no longer pay the rent. When the family is evicted Jim goes first to the workhouse. Life is harsh there and Jim feels compelled to escape. But will llife be any better on the outside?
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summary by anna
Street child is a tragic story based on a real life incidence. It writes about a younge boy’s journey of desperation through loss, starvation and pain. Jim Jarvis (main character) is a togh boy living in the late eighteen hundreds and has many adventures. Jim’s family leaves Jim because of starvation, he is left for a life like everyone elses… the workhouse.Here Jim is treated very badly by Mr Sissons (headteacher) who was very crule to all the boys their. Soon Jim leaves to find his two living sisters, from their on things start to go downhill…..
I enjoyed reading street vchild because it was very interesting to read about life in the late 1800’s. I thought that the idea was great and Jim was a very good character for a story to be based on. Despite this I did think that it could have been written better. This is because sometimes the story jumped about a little bit and it got a bit confusing.
Jim soon discovered the truth about his sisters…
Jim Jarvis has just been on a thrilling adventure of life, death, love and hatred. He soon finds old friends and settles down with them for a while until Shrimps takes ill…
Street child was written by Berlie Doherty in 1993. She captures the readers attention by taking the tragic story’s of Jim into a painfull story.
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