No stars to wish on

Description:

"Each kid only has one pair of shoes here. Number 49's shoes are a pretty good fit for me and I know they're new because they still have that plastic smell. But the real Number 49 is quite a bit bigger than I am, because his pants keep falling down on me. I wish he would come back, so that I could go home." Jack loves telling jokes, but not many people laugh at them in the orphanage. Will he ever be reunited with his mother and sister, his great-aunts and great-grandmother, back at home? A haunting, fable-like story.

subjects: Children,  Juvenile fiction,  Institutional care,  Poor children,  Fiction,  Stolen generations (Australia),  Orphanages,  Aboriginal Australian Children,  Social conditions,  Children's, Teenage & educational,  Child and youth fiction,  Children's fiction,  Orphanages, fiction

Places: Australia

Times: 20th century