Hector Malot’s En Famille, published in 1893 and known in English as Nobody’s Girl, is the companion to his celebrated Nobody’s Boy (Sans famille). The story follows Perrine, a young girl who arrives in France penniless after the death of her parents and must make her way secretly into the life of her wealthy grandfather without revealing who she is.
Malot’s gift for creating resourceful, sympathetic child protagonists navigating a harsh social world made his novels beloved across Europe. Download this public-domain English translation as a free EPUB.