Aimed at readers age 12 and up, this 2011 book by young adult author Andrea Warren highlights the way that Dickens' legendarily dark plotlines 鈥 often involving children living in poverty 鈥 were meant to shed light on the real situations being faced by impoverished families and orphans every day.The book discusses some of the horrors of the lowest classes that the author saw during his youth and how they motivated him in his writing later in his life.