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Published June 15, 2005 by Polyglot Press.
Horatio Alger, Jr.: Tattered Tom, or, The story of a street arab (2005, Polyglot Press)
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Feisty, twelve-year-old Jenny, also known as Tattered Tom because of her ragged mix of clothing, survives in 1870's New York City by sweeping streets and avoiding her abusive guardian until a chance meeting with a sea captain and his sister brings a marked change to her life and fortunes.
Subjects
- Street children -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction