Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Adrift in New York involves the disappearance of a son from the household of his wealthy father, John Linden.

On Broadway, not far from the St.

In this story we find Andy Gordon, the son of a poor widow, as the hero.

This inspiring and vivid story helps shed light on the life of street boys in the city of New York, and the stories become part of a catalyst that will shape America's legislation and future.

Andy Grant is forced to drop out of boarding school and abandon his plans for college because his father is facing difficult economic times at home, particularly because the local squire is threatening to foreclose on the family's farm.

A young boy, Luke Larkin, lives alone with his ailing mother and has no money or food.

Benjamin Franklin is an influential figure, even to very young people.

Ben runs away from home and lives on the streets of New York City for years.

This is a story book.

"e;Brave and Bold"e; was the first in a new series of Alger novels published by Loring, and the first in which sex rears its head.

A short story, set in the USA.

A homeless girl lives by her wits on the streets of New York until it is discovered that she's the long-lost heir to a fortune.

In this exciting story of Chester Rand, a courageous boy in a country grocery store - has a talent for illustrating - and is hired on at 16 as a newspaper artist.

Horatio Alger tells the story of young boy from New York, thrust into the heart of poverty, but who makes his way up in the world through a combination of pluck and luck.

"e;Mother, this is an important day for me,"e; said Grant Colburn, as he entered the kitchen with an armful of wood, and deposited it in the box behind the stove.

Hero Herbert Carr is the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Waynesboro.

He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor of twenty-five cents in silver.

It was a terrible night.

In this tale Ragged Dick, now Richard Hunter, continues "e;cultivating himself,"e; again meets with a set of lucky circumstances (with some unlucky ones thrown in there, but nothing too terribly shocking or unresolvable) and, in the end, meets with his Fame and Fortune.

Fred Fenton is the Erie train boy, a young lad selling sundries on the trains traveling north from New York and through this work supporting his mother and siblings as the family struggles to survive in a New York tenement house.

Philip lives with his stepmother and presumed half-brother.

The life of Daniel Webster is recounted in this fictionalized biography, from his youth on a New Hampshire farm to his distinguished career in Congress.

Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving is a collection of his writings, most of which had previously been published earlier in various periodicals.

Alger describes young men in the city trying to get a head as newsboys, match boys, pedlars, street musicians, and many others.

One of the masterpieces by Horatio.

In Alger's books real boys are seen doing honest things and being successful.

Hero Herbert Carter is a poor student, son to a widow.

A fine adventure story by Alger.

Pleasant reading about how Guy Fenwick looks for treasure to help himself and his family.

Jack Harding was a boy of twelve.

There was a good deal of a mystery surrounding Joe's parentage.

After his father's death, John Oakley clashes with his cruel stepmother while searching for the missing will that grants him his inheritance.

Many of the villains in his books are rich boys who never had to make any effort to improve their character.

That is the City Hall over there, Edgar.

The book takes the reader through the Children's Lodging House, the Bowery Theatre, and the Fulton ferry, besides giving one a description of the life of bootblacks, match boys, apple girls, Bowery B'hoys and other assorted street creatures living in New York.

Though famine prevails not at all in the city;Though none of starvation have died in the street;Yet many there are now exciting our pity,Who're daily complaining of nothing to eat.

The class of boys described in the present volume was called into existence only a few years since, but they are already so numerous that one can scarcely ride down town by any conveyance without having one for a fellow-passenger.

Fifteen year old Harry Gilbert worked in a grocery to support his widowed mother, but lost his job to the storekeeper's relative.

When young Andy came to town, he found a mutual dislike with Master Godfrey, Colonel Preston's son.

At nearly sixteen years of age, Tom Nelson sets out for California hoping to earn money in the gold fields to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm, braving thieves, outlaws, and Indians along the way.

Alger's writings happened to correspond with America's Gilded Age, a time of increasing prosperity in a nation rebuilding from the Civil War.

Ben heard every word that was said, and it confirmed his suspicions.

Poor Paul his back ached dreadfully, for he had never before done any harder work than trifling services for his father.

A young boy supports his family through earnest labor and honesty.

Philip was provided with an appetite, but he did not relish the idea of going downstairs and joining the rest of Mr.

Alone and penniless on the streets of New York, runaway orphan Sam Barker turns to theft and petty crime to survive.

Short excerpt: In spite of the dirt, his face was strikingly handsome, especially when lighted up by a smile, as was often the case, for in spite of the hardships of his lot, and these were neither few nor light, Filippo was naturally merry and light-hearted.

A youth of sturdy qualities elects to follow the calling of a deckhand on a Hudson River steamboat.

A poor family is surprised with an infant on their doorstep on New Year's Eve with a note and monetary support requesting them to raise the child.

Tom is a fifteen year old boy who lives in New York City with an old man named Jacob in Mrs.