Bowery girl

By Taylor, Kim.

Subjects: Poverty, Social settlements, Robbers and outlaws, Fiction, Orphans, Prostitutes, History

Description: In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.