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.
year: 2016, 2018
call number/section: 1000
subjects: conduct of life, fiction, child labor, child abuse, immigrants, italians, new york, united states, animals, treatment, new york (n.y.), history, 19th century, fiction, juvenile fiction, animal welfare, new york (n.y.), history, 19th century
Editions
Hopkinson, Deborah
Alfred A. Knopf (2016)
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.
Schools: 7
Hopkinson, Deborah
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.
Schools: 14
Hopkinson, Deborah
Yearling (2018)
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.
Schools: 1