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City of Orphans by Avi; with illustrations by Greg Ruth is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is City of Orphans about?

The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies--but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection. Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love.Wörter : 61086

Who reads City of Orphans?

Author

Avi; with illustrations by Greg Ruth

Publisher

Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451779233

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, History, Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (2,405 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14