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Joyce, Sandra

The Street Arab: The Story of a British Home Child

Welldone Publishing, 2011

20.00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
2011
ISBN
0987764004
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Joyce, Sandra
Publishers
Welldone Publishing
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
Ficton Canada Child Immigrants from Britain
Binding description
S
Inscription description
Signed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

The Street Arab is a powerful novel about a boy, from a small mining town in Scotland, whose family is torn apart by the First World War and resulting poverty. After foraging for food one day, Robbie returns home to find his family missing and suffers a horrific accident. With strength and determination, he forges ahead and is sent, along with countless other British Home Children, to Canada to begin a new life. What awaits him is more than he could ever have imagined. The Street Arab, written almost a century later, pays homage to the children involved in one of Canada's largest immigration schemes. It is estimated that ten percent of Canadians are British Home Child descendants.Signed on title page, else fine