Angela C. (rainbowreader) - reviewed on 5/27/2015 + 90 more book reviews

This is an entertaining and exciting story. It's sometimes hard to read, dealing as it is with child labor in the late 1800s. Great friendships between the children and well explained back-stories for each. Author's note says that he was inspired to write the story after hearing about a boy in New York who was kidnapped from Italy and made to work as a street busker, managed to escape and was taken care of by an old woman in Central Park. He was part of the child-labor laws being changed. I enjoyed this story.

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