The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang

City of Orphans

The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Brunoâ€™s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies--but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection. Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love.Â
Country USA
Brand ATHENEUM/RICHARD JACKSON BOOKS
Manufacturer Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781416971023
Model 9781416971023
ReleaseDate 2011-09-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416971023

Country	USA
Brand	ATHENEUM/RICHARD JACKSON BOOKS
Manufacturer	Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781416971023
Model	9781416971023
ReleaseDate	2011-09-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416971023

City of Orphans