Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. I found this on Davida's Page @ The Chocolate Lady.
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This week’s topic is Orphans. Meeghan says: "The opposite of family would be no family. And what does a lot of (primarily middle grade or young adult) literature have in common? An absence of parents. Which, honestly, is kind of weird. Who hurt those authors??"
A lot of the books I read with orphans are classics where it was a lot more common that children ended up with no parents or caretakers, or they take place during a war where also more people are killed and have to leave their loved ones behind. But I found some other novels with this topic.
Dickens, Charles "David Copperfield" - 1850
Lawson, Mary "Crow Lake" - 2002
Spyri, Johanna "Heidi" (GE: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre + Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat) - 1880/81
Webster, Jean "Daddy Longlegs" - 1912
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When I was a kid, my reads about orphans was basically The Box Car Children. I wanted to live in a boxcar and forage for useful items from the garbage dump. Adult me is appalled at the idea of even driving by a garbage dump.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean, Sarah. For children, that always sounds fascinating. Because we don't see the disadvantages, it just always seems to be an adventure.
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