Title: The store boy, or, The fortunes of Ben Barclay
Description: 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, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, Adventure stories, Swindlers and swindling, Real estate agents, Widows, Diligence, Secretaries, Landlords, Poverty