Jack's ward, or, The boy guardian
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Contributors: Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Foundlings -- Fiction; Kidnapping -- Fiction; Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- Fiction; Counduct of life -- Fiction; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Jack's ward; Boy guardian
Description: Having found a baby girl on their doorstep seven years previously, Jack and his parents are alarmed when a lady claiming to have been the infant's nurse arrives to reclaim the child.
Notes: First published in 1875 by Loring, Boston.
Enl. and rewritten version of: Timothy Crump's ward.