A bandit's tale
About this book
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
Subjects
Child abuseConduct of lifeChild laborFictionItaliansTreatmentAnimalsImmigrantsHistoryChildren's fictionConduct of life, fictionChild abuse, fictionItalian americans, fictionAnimals, treatment, fictionNew york (n.y.), history, fiction