Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks - Horatio Alger Jr. • BookLikes (ISBN:1594623945)

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

by: Horatio Alger Jr. (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781594623943 (1594623945)

Publish date: September 30th 2006

Publisher: Book Jungle

Pages no: 268

Edition language: English

Category:

Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Novels, Academic, School, Literature, Read For School, Historical Fiction, 19th Century

Series: Ragged Dick series (#1)

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Meandering Em's rated it

10 years ago

http://emilyg.booklikes.com Meandering Em's 3.5 A Rags to Riches story

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This 3 1/2 star children's book is almost unknown today. Horatio Alger, Jr. was a prolific and popular author in the 19th century. He wrote many books in the same formulaic style, which is "poor boy" becomes respectable through hard work. However, this was the first book I read and I quite enjoyed i...

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Never Read Passively rated it

16 years ago

http://m.booklikes.com Never Read Passively 3.0 Ragged Dick

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I read this book because I kept hearing liberals criticize the "Horatio Alger stories" that conservatives like to tell about America. According to these reputable sources, such rags to riches tales are no longer realistic for most of the nation's poor. Ragged Dick is a charismatic bootblack who, thr...

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