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Sapphire Battersea / Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt.

by Wilson, Jacqueline.

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Doubleday, c2011.

Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction.

9780440869276 (2012 Corgi Yearling pbk.)

9780385618922 (hc.)

394 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby by her mother. But she always longed to be called Sapphire, after her sapphire-blue eyes. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But life doesn't always go as planned...Follow the twists and turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Jem - but also finds a new sweetheart, Bertie the butcher's boy, who whisks her away from her household chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hetty's life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?"--From publisher.

Sharratt, Nick.

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