Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

A juvenile novel by Horatio Alger, first published in 1868, following Ragged Dick, a poor but honest and cheerful boot-black living on the streets of New York, intended to draw readers' sympathy to the plight of the city's homeless and vagrant children.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›American novels to 1900›Children's and family stories

Reader

Young readers›Family, school, and everyday stories›American novels to 1900›Children's and family stories