Bowery girl
By: Kim Taylor.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670059669
Subjects: Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction.; Prostitutes -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Social settlements -- Fiction.; Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.