Kid Blink Beats the World

by Don Brown and Don Brown

Book Overview

"It was all for a penny. They left their cramped and crowded tenement apartments for a penny. They scurried beside the pushcart peddlers for a penny. They dodged street trolleys and horse drawn wagons for a penny. And in the summer of 1899, Kid Blink, Race Track Higgins, Tiny Tim, Crutch Morris, and Crazy Arborn battled the world for a penny." The story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons - and won. In the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596430036
• ISBN13: 9781596430037
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4