Dan the Newsboy Horatio Alger 9781287950943 Books
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Dan the Newsboy Horatio Alger 9781287950943 Books
This is the first book I have read by this author, but going by the reviews he is very popular. Like so many books I buy, I came across this one by chance and it intrigued me. I read the sample and hit the “one-click” (soo easy).Dan’s father was a wealthy businessman with a beautiful home and a wife who had everything she needed. Dan attended a private school and was receiving a fine education, when the bottom fell out of their world. Mr Mordaunt’s book-keeper absconded with the firm’s money leaving the family in dire circumstances. Several months later Dan’s father died leaving his wife and fifteen year-old Dan scraping a living while living in tenement housing and shunned by all their former “friends”. Dan has a gift for making new friends who help him in various ways, and he soon discovers that he is a pretty good thief catcher. A businessman, Mr Rogers, happens upon one of the incidents and gives Dan his card with instructions to call on him the following day, which he does, and is astonished to find himself employed as a detective to discover who is misappropriating funds. A couple of other things happen before this, but I will leave those for readers to discover.
Dan foils an attempted burglary at Mr Roger’s company and is appropriately rewarded and given some very sound advice. There is at least one more adventure for Dan before the conclusion of the story. I did find Dan just a bit too good to be true for a fifteen-year old boy, and while he did make the most of the opportunities he was given, he would probably have not bettered his lot and that of his mother without all the help he was given.
Never having heard of Horatio Alger, I looked him up and it seems his books are aimed at a YA audience and carry a standard plot-line with a few variations; boy in difficult circumstances makes good. The writing is good, although sentimental and has a moralistic tone which was very popular at the time (1884). I am not too sure I could read several books that are just variations on the same theme, but I did enjoy this one
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Dan the Newsboy Horatio Alger 9781287950943 Books Reviews
The original title, Dan the Detective, should have been retained. Honestly, whoever decided Newsboy had not read the book!
Okay, it's a Horatio Alger so you know the storyline. This particular one is one of my favorites, and it's a gem.
The premise is a father was swindled by his bookkeeper, losing everything (business, wealth) and soon his life. Leaving behind a widow who sews vests and a wonderful son who loves his mom and works to support her selling papers. That's all BEFORE the main storyline starts.
In any event a small flower girl who sells bouquets near the Astor House hotel is given a counterfeit fifty cent piece. Dan chases down and makes the crook replace the bad coin. This is observed by a businessman who suggests Dan come by his office in the morning.
From there, Dan becomes an undercover detective. His job is to ferret out who is stealing from Mr. Rogers (who owns the company)
Dan, originally the son of a wealthy businessman has the start of a decent education. One of his fellow students is stuck up and ignores Day. Tom (the snob) repeatedly does call Dan a newsboy, trying to denigrate the hero.
The girls don't care -- liking Dan for his manners and dancing skills.
In any event, this exciting tale has an orphan kidnapping (solved by Detective Dan) along with a robbery (safe at Mr. Roger's business) that Detective Dan is able to discover in time to "save the day" along with $12,000.
The book I loved. It's one of the best Horatio Alger stories and well worth reading. In particular I liked how the mother has a line about friends in need, friends indeed. She wasn't fooled when her wealth was restored by "old friends" -- it's something (near the end) that parents may want to point out to their children for discussion.
Well worth the money, Dan the Detective is a fine book, except for whomever decided to retitle it Dan the Newsboy ought to read the book and rethink the decision to rename it. In my opinion that is.
Yes, Alger follows a formula, but it's entertaining enough and offers moral lessons to the young. It also has examples of how to handle bullies or snobs. This was a fun read.
Another crackling good read from Horatio Alger. A fun story with the usual complications of poor boy navigating all kinds of challenges to triumph in the end. Like most of his books, this one has witty dialogue.
This is the first book I have read by this author, but going by the reviews he is very popular. Like so many books I buy, I came across this one by chance and it intrigued me. I read the sample and hit the “one-click” (soo easy).
Dan’s father was a wealthy businessman with a beautiful home and a wife who had everything she needed. Dan attended a private school and was receiving a fine education, when the bottom fell out of their world. Mr Mordaunt’s book-keeper absconded with the firm’s money leaving the family in dire circumstances. Several months later Dan’s father died leaving his wife and fifteen year-old Dan scraping a living while living in tenement housing and shunned by all their former “friends”. Dan has a gift for making new friends who help him in various ways, and he soon discovers that he is a pretty good thief catcher. A businessman, Mr Rogers, happens upon one of the incidents and gives Dan his card with instructions to call on him the following day, which he does, and is astonished to find himself employed as a detective to discover who is misappropriating funds. A couple of other things happen before this, but I will leave those for readers to discover.
Dan foils an attempted burglary at Mr Roger’s company and is appropriately rewarded and given some very sound advice. There is at least one more adventure for Dan before the conclusion of the story. I did find Dan just a bit too good to be true for a fifteen-year old boy, and while he did make the most of the opportunities he was given, he would probably have not bettered his lot and that of his mother without all the help he was given.
Never having heard of Horatio Alger, I looked him up and it seems his books are aimed at a YA audience and carry a standard plot-line with a few variations; boy in difficult circumstances makes good. The writing is good, although sentimental and has a moralistic tone which was very popular at the time (1884). I am not too sure I could read several books that are just variations on the same theme, but I did enjoy this one
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