Title: Strive and succeed
Subtitle: or, The progress of Walter Conrad
First published: 1800
Description: Julius: A homeless, fifteen-year-old New York City boy is sent by the Children's Aid Society to Brookville, Wisconsin, where his hard work and heroism win him a chance to make his own fortune.

Store boy: Anxious to help his widowed mother meet the greedy landlords demand for the full mortgage payment, sixteen-year-old Ben Barclay finds employment as a secretary to a real estate agent in 1870's New York City, and through honesty, good character, and friendship saves the family home and finds answers to a long-ago mystery.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Teachers, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Schools, fiction, Wisconsin, fiction, Success, Juvenile fiction, Young men, Conduct of life, Wealth, Street life, Frontier and pioneer life, Schools, Kidnapping, Indians of North America, History, Diligence, Inheritance and succession, Friendship, Boys, Adventure stories, Swindlers and swindling, Real estate agents, Widows, Poverty