Nobody's boy (Sans famille) by Hector Malot
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"Nobody's Boy" by Hector Malot is a novel published in 1878. When eight-year-old Rémi is sold to a traveling street performer, he leaves the only home he's known to journey across France with a troupe of performing animals. Along the way, he encounters wealthy strangers who hint at mysteries in his past, faces harsh winters and cruel masters, and discovers both the brutality and kindness of the world. This tale of survival
follows a boy searching for belonging in a world that seems determined to deny him one. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Malot, Hector, 1830-1907 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Gruelle, Johnny, 1880-1938 |
| Translator | Crewe-Jones, Florence, 1876-1940 |
| Title | Nobody's boy (Sans famille) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_Famille |
| Credits |
Produced by Free Elf, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 91.2 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Orphans -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Street entertainers -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 25102 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-25102-8 |
| Release Date | Apr 19, 2008 |
| Last Update | Apr 25, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1653 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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