Frank Fowler, the cash boy
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Adoption -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Stunned to hear from his dying mother that he was adopted under mysterious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Frank Fowler, determined to support himself and his sister, travels to New York City to find work and clues to his true identity.
Notes: First published in 1887 by A.L. Burt, Philadelphia.