A Brief Peek Into 'The Fight of a Child'

I've recently started making notes and jotting things down for another book, The Fight of a Child. This is the story following a young boy living on the streets, this is the opening paragraph and I hope you like it :)

There comes a time when one must put down childish things and begin to grow up and become the man or woman they are fated to become. 

However, never did such an opportunity arise for young Benjamin Willis. See, now while Benjamin was a nine year old boy, soon to be ten, he didn't live his childhood as society would have you believe to be the norm. He was a street boy. An abandoned orphan whom had lost his father to disease and his mother to the hands of her abusive boyfriend.

When abandonment had become vulnerability, maturity had become vital. And no longer did Benjamin yearn for the warm, comfortable lives of other children his age, of whom he could only watch behind the bars of prejudice and class. But instead he found his warmth and comfort in the travel that came from living on the street. He consoled himself with constant reminding that he had seen and experienced more than most. And this small fact was true to some extent, but little did young Benjamin know that shortly his world as he had become accustomed to would turn upside down and he would experience more than he could ever have imagined...