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Published by Orchard Books (NY), 1994
ISBN 10: 0531068641ISBN 13: 9780531068649
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 154 pages. Ex-libraryA fictional account of the experiences o f 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.A novel based on the life of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in London in the 1860s a nd survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's ragged children Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Homele ssness is the central topic of this grim and gripping novel set i n Victorian England. Doherty (Dear Nobody) builds her plot around the few facts known about Jim Jarvis, the London urchin who is s aid to have inspired Thomas Barnardo to establish his homes for d estitute boys, the first such asylums in Britain. No longer able to afford the rent on the squalid tenement room they call home, J im, his sisters and his sick, widowed mother are turned out into the inhospitable streets of London. The next way-station on Jim's downward spiral is the workhouse. There Jim's mother's dies, and Jim seems destined to become like the other inmates, broken-spir ited paupers who answer to pious-speaking sadists. After much har dship, Jim escapes, and spends what prove to be his happiest days on the street. His idyll ends when, for a single coin, he is sol d into servitude to the cruel drunkard Grimy Nick, captain of a s mall coal ferry. Until his lucky encounter with Barnardo, every a dult Jim meets is either kindly but powerless or greedy and heart less; his only friends are other street children, and even they a re not entirely to be trusted. With its sootily authentic atmosph ere and its earnest reformist message, this tale calls to mind th e ambience of Charles Dickens's novels. Ages 8-12. Copyright 199 4 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Gr ade 5-8-Set in Victorian England, this story of life on the stree ts has enough action to keep children reading. The book opens wit h Jim's desperately poor, fatherless family being evicted; within a day his sisters are in domestic service, his mother is dead, a nd Jim is on his own. After a year in the workhouse, he escapes. Eating and sleeping where and when he can, he is more or less sol d to a cruel taskmaster with a coal boat, who reacts to Jim's att empt to flee by tying a rope around his neck. Ever resourceful, t he boy finally gets away and returns to the London slums where he finds a friend dying from hunger. Realizing that he must do some thing to avoid a similar fate, he seeks out a man who runs a scho ol for poor children and finds a home. The novel is based on a re al boy, Jim Jarvis, and the teacher who saved him was Dr. Bernard o, who, inspired by the boy's plight, went on to establish homes for destitute children. Doherty has written a Dickensian tale wit h compassion and insight while creating a likable hero with the c ourage, persistence, and instinct to survive in a harsh, inhospit able world. Several of the supporting characters are also based o n real people and are finely drawn. With the number of homeless c hildren today, this story has relevance to contemporary society a s it shows not only the price paid when poor people are dismissed as unimportant, but also the strength of the human spirit and th e difference that one committed, caring person can make. Jane Gar dner Connor, South Carolina State Library, Columbia Copyright 199 4 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Gr. 5-7. Drawing on the dark wet shelterless midnight streets that inspired Olive r Twist, Doherty tells a stark story of a poor child in Victorian London who escapes from the brutal workhouse and tries to find a home. Alone, hungry, and freezing, Jim Jarvis barely survives in the noisy, crowded slums, stealing scraps of food, sleeping on r ooftops, and bonding when he can with other orph.
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