Jacqueline Wilson

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The Runaway Girls takes readers back to Victorian London and the world so memorably recreated by Dame Jacqueline in her best-selling Hetty Feather. When Lucy Locket runs away from home, she makes friends with the street performer Kitty Fisher. Soon the girls from very different backgrounds find that they can depend on each other to survive, but the streets of Victorian London are dangerous and soon they find themselves under threat from thieves and — even worse — the Workhouse!