Rough and Ready, or, Life among the New York newsboys
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Newspaper vendors -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Rough and Ready; Life among the New York newsboys
Description: Living in a run-down section of New York City, fifteen-year-old newsboy Rufus and his six-year-old sister Rose escape from their drunken and abusive stepfather, but when he kidnaps Rose, the newsboy plots to take her back.
Notes: First published in 1869 by Loring, Boston.