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Paton-Walsh,
Jill
A CHANCE
CHILD
New
York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978.
IL 5-8
RL 8.0
ISBN
0374411743
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labor laws are something we take for granted. This book gives us food for
thought. Chapters alternate between two children's journeys. One child
moving from work in a coal mine, to iron mongers, to pottery-making in
England takes us through the streets of canals on a rickety metal boat.
The alternating chapters take us on a modern-day boy's journey in search
of a long hidden brother his family claims doesn't exist. Is Christopher
crazy? Does Creep really exist? Read "A Chance Child" and see if you can
find out. |
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SUBJECTS:
Brothers -- Fiction
Children -- Employment -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Space and time -- Fiction |
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