9780670059669 | Viking Childrens Books, April 6, 2006, cover price $16.99 |
About this edition: In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.
9780142409039 | Reprint edition (Puffin, September 6, 2007), cover price $7.99 |
About this edition: Surviving the only way they know how on the rough streets of New York in 1883, pickpocket Mollie Flynn and prostitute Annabelle Lee are given an opportunity for a better life when they are invited to live at a settlement house in the Bowery, but despite their new surroundings, the girls find it difficult to make the transition with ease.