Title: Silas Snobden's office boy
First published: 1973
Description: After unfairly losing his job as office boy, sixteen-year-old Frank Manton determines, despite many setbacks, to find a way to continue to support his mother and make a new life for them both in 1890s New York.
Subjects: Fiction, Conduct of life in fiction, Conduct of life, Stepfathers, Stepfathers in fiction, History, Kidnapping, Kidnaping, Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnaping in fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Youth, Juvenile fiction, Clerks, Success, Diligence, Inheritance and succession, Friendship, Boys, Pictorial bindings, Specimens
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1865-1898