num_pages: 186
description: A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. A quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, it is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman.
language: English
title: Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
titlecomplete: Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
genres: Fiction, American, School, Young Adult, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Childrens, New York, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 2656
places: New York City, New York
series: Ragged Dick
publisher: Signet Classics