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** There was also another young Herald-Trainee in ''Arrows of the Queen'' who gets a mention on one of the ''Mage Winds'' books. He was one used for unsavory purposes.
* Kim in [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s ''Mairelon the Magician''. A girl disguised as a boy, and for good reason.
* In the ''[[Outlander (novel)|Outlander]]'' series, Fergus grew up this way, living in a whorehouse, unsure which of the ladies was his mother, until adopted by Jamie. In places it's a ''very'' dark take on this
* Stevie in the Caleb Carr novels ''[[The Alienist]]'' and ''Angel Of Death'' is a street urchin.
* ''[[Lloyd Alexander|The Westmark Trilogy]]'' has the girl Mickle and the sister-and-brother duo Sparrow and Weasel.
* In the ''[[The Borribles|Borribles]]'' trilogy by Michael de Larrabeiti, street urchins are sort of the embryonic form of the immortal, elfin
* Leisl in the [[Ravenloft]] novel ''Vampire of the Mists''.
* Jin Sato from ''Cryoburn'', the latest installment of the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], is a street urchin. Somewhat unusually for this trope, he hasn't been on the streets his whole life, and he left his aunt and uncle not because they were horribly abusive, but because his aunt threatened to get rid of some of his pets, which include a falcon, rats, three hens, and a three-legged cat. {{spoiler|The real reason he couldn't stand living with his aunt and uncle is the way they've tried to obliterate the memory of his mother, out of fear of the [[Mega Corp]] who had her [[Human Popsicle|frozen]]}}
* Senka Skorik from [[Erast Fandorin|Boris Akunin's]] ''He Lover of Death''
* Mara from ''[[Mara Daughter of the Nile]]'' combines this with being a [[Beautiful Slave Girl|slave]]. Her [[Establishing Character Moment]] ''in-universe'' is stealing a number of honey cakes from a
* Mickey in [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''Michael O'Halloran'', of the odd jobs variety. He still lives in the apartment where he had lived with his mother; she had been at pains to teach him how, so he could escape the [[Orphanage of Fear]].
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