Paperboy /

Holland, Isabelle.

Paperboy / Isabelle Holland. - 1st ed. - New York : Holiday House, c1999. - 137 p. ; 22 cm.

In 1881 in New York City, teenaged Kevin O'Donnell, ever conscious of the prejudice against the Irish poor, struggles to support his sick father and young sister by working as a messenger for a prominent newspaper but finds his job threatened when he is falsely accused of stealing from his employer.

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Irish Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Newspapers--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

PZ7.H7083 / Pap 1999

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