Sparrows in the Dark - Exciting Books 15

The moment you open the first page, you'll find yourself burying your head in the pages and turning the pages without realizing how time passes. The story of a boy who is led one day by unknown people to a strange house where children are mistreated unfolds as if by a thread. This exciting story, reminiscent of Charles Dickinson's “Oliver Twist” and “Great Expectations,” also won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the children's category.

Collie was a child who grew up in a large house surrounded by many servants and did not lift a finger. He lost his parents in an accident not long ago. One night, while Corley was going to bed, he was kidnapped by two strange men and taken to a place called Broggin Boy's House.

Broggin Boy's House is a place where children wandering on the streets are taken in and made to do hard work and abuse them. All they are given is strange food and tattered clothes, and they have to work in a glass factory without being able to straighten their backs. There are children around the same age, but they think that the well-bred collie is a different type of child and do not approach him.

From then on, the series of incidents that occur one after another captivates the reader with the question, ‘Who kidnapped Collie and for what reason?’ However, although it is a full-fledged mystery fairy tale, it is not a book focused only on fun. This is because the warm affection between humans that blooms within it and the heartwarming ending in which justice triumphs in the end are fun and laugh-out-loud funny.