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Paperback Tattered Tom Book

ISBN: 1542701414

ISBN13: 9781542701419

Tattered Tom

(Book #1 in the Tattered Tom Series)

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All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual. By the time he died...

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