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Horatio Alger's book, Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab (1871), is an early example of the appearance of street children in literature. The book follows the tale of a homeless girl who lives by her wits on the streets of New York, US. Other examples from popular fiction include "Kim", from Kipling's novel of the same name; the character of Kim is a street child in colonial India. Also, "Gavroche", in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Fagin's crew of child pickpockets in Oliver Twist, and Sherlock Holmes' "Baker Street Irregulars" are other notable examples of the presence of street children in popular works of literature.
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