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158 pp.
| Scholastic |
May, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-439-18894-6$$10.95
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4-6My Name Is America series.
Finn Reardon, an Irish-American living in New York City in 1899, attends sixth grade, works as a newsboy each evening, and dreams of becoming a reporter. Bartoletti gives her reader a great deal of historical information in a novel that is more about a time period than about a character. An afterword explains which elements of the story, such as the newsboys' strike of 1899, are based on historical fact.