Kim Taylor
Bowery Girl
Hardcover
(Viking Juvenile April 6, 2006)
The Bowery, 1883: Gamblers and thieves, immigrants and Street Arabs, Do-Gooders and charity houses, impossible dreams and impossible odds. This is the story of two "Bowery girls"the pickpocket Mollie Flynn and the prostitute Annabelle Lee, young women without family or education who must fend for themselves.Two young women whose survival depends on each other. After a chance encounter with Emmeline DuPre, a "Do-Gooder" who has recently opened a settlement house, Mollie and Annabelle are given the opportunity to better themselves. But the city offers many temptations, and on the streets of the Bowery, you do whatever it takes to survive.
This vibrant, carefully researched novel shows how muchand how littleour world has changed.
- ISBN
- 0670059668 /
- Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 0.9 in.
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