Andy Grant's Pluck |
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Author:
| Alger, Horatio |
ISBN: | 978-1-4921-4010-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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"It begins with a telegram and this causes our hero to leave the academy; then follows a picnic that is so well described that we wish we had been there to cut the sandwiches and ice cream. But this is only one of the unsuspected events, money is lost, a tramp encountered, comes to New York and my! - what exciting occurrences. But Andy is a plucky fellow and is bound (with Mr. Alger's help) to come out all right. We always wondered how he could make his stories so real, and do...
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"It begins with a telegram and this causes our hero to leave the academy; then follows a picnic that is so well described that we wish we had been there to cut the sandwiches and ice cream. But this is only one of the unsuspected events, money is lost, a tramp encountered, comes to New York and my! - what exciting occurrences. But Andy is a plucky fellow and is bound (with Mr. Alger's help) to come out all right. We always wondered how he could make his stories so real, and do still. There is a good purpose in all his books." -The School Journal, Volume 67, July 4,1903
"Adventures of a boy seeking his fortune in a great city." -The Lutheran Witness, Volume 36, January 9, 1917
Young Andy meets much adversity in his quest for success.
Andy Grant, a young student, is forced to leave Penhurst Academy abruptly when his father, a farmer, has $6,000 stolen by a bank employee. As a result, the father must mortgage the small farm for $3,000. Squire Carter, a local tightwad and hard-hearted man of wealth, holds the mortgage, but insists on a clause in the contract which would allow him to foreclose at the end of two years.
Andy, not cut out for farming, is fortunate to meet Mr. Gale, a rich, young New Yorker, who is boarding at a local hotel, and hires Andy to be his tutor at nine dollars a week. This does not last, however, and Andy must keep finding new jobs until he can afford to pay off his father's mortgage. Unfortunately, there are many people who try to get in his way.
Mr. Alger's stories are in fact as popular now as when first published, because they are pure in tone and inspiring in influence, and many reforms in the juvenile life of New York may be traced to them. Among the best known are: Strong and Steady; Strive and Succeed; Try and Trust: Bound to Rise; Risen from the Ranks; Herbert Carter's Legacy; Brave and Bold; Jack's Ward; Shifting for Himself; Wait and Hope; Paul the Peddler; Phil the Fiddler: Slow and Sure: Julius the Street Boy; Tom the Bootblack; Struggling Upward; Facing the World; The Cash Boy; Making His Way; Tony the Tramp; Joe's Luck; Do and Dare: Only an Irish Boy; Sink or Swim; A Cousin's Conspiracy; Andy Gordon; Bob Burton; Harry Vane; Hector's Inheritance; Mark Manson's Triumph; Sam's Chance; The Telegraph Boy; The Young Adventurer; The Young Outlaw; The Young Salesman, and Luke Walton.