A boy thrown on New York by a stepfather's greed finds work, is cheated of it, and works his way back with the help of people who have nothing to spare. Alger wrote the same book many times and this is a fair specimen of the pattern. What is worth keeping is the accounting of a poor boy's week in the city of 1895. Fifty-eight plates of New York streets and night skies by John Sloan and Winslow Homer give the boy's city the look it had.
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Making His Way : or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
Ragged Dick : or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Strong and Steady : Paddle Your Own Canoe
Strive and Succeed : The Progress of Walter Conrad
Mark, the Match Boy : Richard Hunter's Ward
The Young Outlaw : Adrift in the Streets
Paul Prescott's Charge
Sink or Swim : Harry Raymond's Resolve
Tattered Tom : The Story of a Street Arab
Ragged Dick : Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Sam's Chance : And How He Improved It