A telegram calls Andy Grant home from his academy: his father’s savings are lost and the farm is mortgaged to grasping Squire Carter. Andy leaves school and heads to the city to work, where he faces a scheming Uncle Simon, his nephew Rich and other plotters while trying to rescue the family’s fortunes.
One of Alger’s best-known titles, with all the hallmarks of the rags-to-respectability story. Download the free EPUB.