Title: A bandit's tale
Description: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
Subjects: Child abuse, Conduct of life, Child labor, Fiction, Italians, Treatment, Animals, Immigrants, History, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Animals, treatment, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 19th century