Bobby Bright, son of a poor widow, sets out to pay for the little black house his mother cannot afford, selling books, standing up for his rights and getting out of one scrape only to fall into another. Optic makes the real contest an inward one: the boy’s honesty is tested by theft, temptation and easy money as much as his business sense is tested by the road.
A classic of the American self-made-boy story from one of the most prolific writers of nineteenth-century juvenile fiction. Download the free EPUB.