A Boy's Journey Home

Author: Hector Malot [French]
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Orphan Rémi is adopted by a farmer and lives a poor but peaceful life. His cruel foster father sells him to traveling performers, and he earns a living by performing street acts. After his new master is unjustly imprisoned, he meets a kind noblewoman. The master takes him away to raise him into a better person, and they begin to wander again. The master dies of cold in a desperate situation. Upon learning his true identity, Rémi, in his haste to find his family, mistakenly falls into the hands of a suspected fake father from the underworld. In the end, with the help of his good friends, he finally finds his real mother, who turns out to be the noblewoman. The story ends with a happy reunion.