Recently read a book called "The Whispering Road by Livy Michael about a boy called Joe or Tom or Dodger depending on who he is with. It's fairly harrowing because he and his sister are workhouse children who are farmed out to people as unpaid slaves, kept and fed the bare minimum to keep them alive and working, but it has a reasonably happy ending -thank goodness,- and manages to hold the interest in a Dickensian kind of way. It also has an element of magic, fantasy, and psychic abilities which make it more intriguing. If you can stomach all the tragedies and get to the end you may even realise that hundreds of kids in India live like these children. Not a pleasant thought!
The story originated out of a real situation in the author's neighbouring farm and has been cooked and stewed with historical facts,people and places. If you get to the end of the book ,there is an author's note which is also worth reading.
For older children..................
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