Jr. Horatio Alger 
Robert Coverdale’s Struggle Or, On the Wave of Success 

All of Horatio Algers books are so easy to read but they are also very entertaining, in this particular book a boy named Robert struggles as he has trying to survive and succeed in a very hard world, we sometimes forget how hard it is to be poor and have to struggle to even feed ourselves in a world of plenty but the thing you learn more than anything else is that hard work and honesty will always be more successful than being a thief… (Amazon)