A Boy Called Dickens

Kids, People and Places, Biography, Fiction, Historical, Fiction - YA
Cover of the book A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson, Random House Children's Books
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Author: Deborah Hopkinson ISBN: 9780375987403
Publisher: Random House Children's Books Publication: January 10, 2012
Imprint: Schwartz & Wade Language: English
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9780375987403
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication: January 10, 2012
Imprint: Schwartz & Wade
Language: English

For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. This Booklist Best Children's Book of the Year is historical fiction at its ingenious best.

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For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. This Booklist Best Children's Book of the Year is historical fiction at its ingenious best.

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