Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author known for his numerous young adult novels, most famously "Ragged Dick." His stories often featured impoverished boys who achieved success through hard work, determination, and virtue, popularizing the "rags to riches" narrative.
Young Adult Fiction
Adventure
Facing the World
The Store Boy
Andy Grant's Pluck
Try and Trust
The Boy Hunters
The Young Musician ; Or, Fighting His Way
From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield
Try and Trust
Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience
Making His Way Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience
Ragged Dick
Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success
A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance
Dan, The Newsboy
Do And Dare
Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life
Nothing To Do and Struggling Upward: Two Works by Horatio Alger
In a new world;: Or, Among the goldfields of Australia