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City of Orphans

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

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Trace Maks’s coming-of-age journey. What forces contribute to his development, and which threaten to halt it?

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How does the use of an omniscient narrator affect the story? How would it change the tone if the author has used first-person narration from Maks’s point of view?

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How does the author balance the naturalistic and deterministic tone of the story with hope and optimism through its child characters?

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