Katy Redburn’s family is poor but too proud to beg, and when money runs out she takes matters into her own hands. A silver watch, a visit to the pawnbroker with the sly Simon Sneed and a stint selling goods door to door set her on the road to supporting her mother by her own work.
A girl’s version of the Victorian self-help story, by one of the most popular American juvenile writers of his day. Download the free EPUB.