City of Orphans (Paperback)

from abbylibrarian

Life for 13-year-old Maks Geless is hard enough, treasuring every penny he makes selling newspapers to help his Danish immigrant family get by. But when his older sister is accused of and arrested for stealing a gold watch, it threatens to tear his whole family apart. With the help of a plucky or...

from jothebookgirl

The setting is 1893 in Brooklyn, New York. The families you get to know are living in poverty where every penny is cherished.

from VikkiLaw

I originally thought my daughter would like this book since she likes mysteries and we live in the Lower East Side (albeit in the 21st rather than the 19th century.) She read the first page and decided that she would pass. (For those who know my daughter, you'll know that this is a rarity) I got...

from Mad.River.Librarian

Just as the Lorax speaks for the trees, we have Avi to speak for the children. The lives of the children of immigrants in New York City at the end of the 19th century were filled with dangers, suffering, and hardships utterly foreign to children living today. And yet children's lives were also fi...