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Carregando... The Island of Worthy Boys: A Novelde Connie Hertzberg Mayo
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. '“Who?” Aidan looked puzzled. “Who can we trust?” Charles smiled his lopsided smile at Aidan. “Each other.”' Charles and Aiden aren't brothers. But they convince the Boston Farm School they are in order to get away after they accidentally commit a murder on the streets of Boston. Connie Mayo is amazing at depicting life in Boston for the poor in the late 1800s, complete with all its grittiness and filth. She has clearly done her research on the Farm School as well. Located on Thompson Island in Boston Harbor, it served as a home for poor boys who were taught a trade. Mayo's words bring these forgotten boys into the present in a story you won't soon forget. This is fascinating, well written and researched historical fiction about a school founded in 1835 on Thompson Island in Boston Harbor, whose mission was to teach boys between 10-14 a useful trade (and religion). The first part deals with the miserable poverty of two "street Arabs", Charles and Aidan, in the 1890s. The author recreates the frightful lives and marginal existences of many Boston residents - yet the reader can still see the lure of the streets, just like it is today for some boys and men. In the second half, the boys escape from their jobs as petty thieves to the School. There are many twists, turns, and vivid characters in the story. An epilogue set in the 1920s provides some closure; however, I hope there is a sequel in the works - because it would be another good read to see how these boys-to-men, and Boston, weathered the Great Depression. This book is headed to Boston to my dad to read next! HIS dad was born around the time of the setting of this book, i KNOW he'll be in awe as much as i was. Thompson Island off the coast of Boston Mass. was turned into a farm school for boys. Reform schools of the time were dens of horror and this place actually created productive young men for decades before closing in the 70's. The story centers around 2 young kids caught running the streets, caught in the midst of a crime. This book, the Island of Worthy Boys was well worth every minute spent reading it! sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML:Winner of the 2016 Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards In 1889, the Boston Farm School didn't accept boys with any sort of criminal record. Which made it the perfect hiding place for two boys who accidentally killed someone. Charles has been living alone on the streets of Boston for the last two of his twelve years. Aidan's mom can't stay sober enough to keep her job. When the boys team up, Charles teaches Aidan the art of rolling drunks in the saloon and brothel district, and life starts to look up??until a robbery goes horribly wrong one night and they need to leave the city or risk arrest. When the boys con their way into The Boston Farm School??located on an island one mile out in Boston Harbor??they think they've cheated fate. But the Superintendent is obsessed with keeping the bad element out of his school, and as both their story and their friendship start to splinter, Charles and Aidan discover they are not as far from the law as they h Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Charles and Aidan meet quite by accident and although Charles is wary of people and used to being alone the two quickly become the best of friends. They are each suffering through their own hard times and their friendship is only solidified when things take a turn for the worse. I was totally immersed in this story and couldn't put it down.
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