English language
Published Dec. 22, 2010 by Henry Holt.
Nicholas Dane
4 stars
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When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist."
Subjects
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Sexual abuse -- Fiction
- Child abuse -- Fiction
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Fiction