The Boy with No Shoes by William Horwood

The Boy with No Shoes

William Horwood

448 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

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Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly...

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