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Far from Home (Street Child): The sisters of Street Child

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I liked how the bulk of the novel was set inside a cotton mill, as opposed to following Jim's story through every nook and cranny of London.

It’s not until I’m standing in the shower, trying to wash away the stench of eighteen hours in limbo, that the anger and anxiety rise up within me. I had to visually comprehend a complex structure I’ve never laid eyes on, but draw it 700 years ago and from a specific angle. There were days when they were all happy before the whites took their lands and forced them to move from their homes. Fair enough, but the truth is that no one—or almost no one—spends any time at all behind bars for nonpayment of a parking ticket or even a suspended license. My response to that has always been that although Jim Jarvis was based on a real child, I’ve no idea whether he had sisters or not.By the time Emily and Lizzie were in the mill, they should only have worked up to 10 hours a day, and they had to be over 10. Now, turning to her role-play friends to cope with her fighting parents, she worries that people will judge her for her fannishness and online life. When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he thinks he will never see them again.

The inevitable train wreck of her lies looms on the horizon for months in an overlong morality play building to the climax that includes tidy resolutions to all the character arcs that are quite heartwarming but, in the case of Cass’ estranged mother, narratively unearned. Far From Home: The Sisters of Street Child is set in Victorian England, at the time of the Industrial Revolution. While I didn't feel as emotionally connected to Katie's story or to her outlook on her and her family's way of life, I was able to understand a bit how things had reached such a point.Atmospheric, gripping and epic in scope, Far from Home brings the turbulent history of Zimbabwe to vivid, tangible life. Her aunt Hannah wants a baby and her uncle Seth hopes he'll reap financial rewards when he takes a risk with his harvest. This is adventure story as well as historical novel, a book that will grip young readers, make them understand our past and give them an insight into the lives some children across the world are living today.

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