Street Child: Harpercollins Children's Classics: Inclusive education / mainstreaming The Parent Agency is an

The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child – and for the child in everyone

now desolate and boarded up

Vaughan was killed in a plane crash in 1990

Newbery Medal–winning author Patricia MacLachlan paints a moving portrait of what it means to be a family

To find their way home

Street Child: Harpercollins Children's Classics: Inclusive education / mainstreaming The Parent Agency is anWhen his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Struggling to survive, Jim finally finds some friends only to be snatched away and made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick, constantly guarded by his vicious dog, Snipe. Will Jim ever manage to be free?