It Ain't Always Easy

by Kathleen Karr

Living a precarious existence on the Lower East Side of New York in 1882, eleven-year-old street urchin Jack McConell joins forces with eight-year-old runaway Mandy Kerrigan, and the two of them leave the city to seek a new life

228 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1990

About the author

Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women’s fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them, (It Ain’t Always Easy, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers.

Reviews

[Sharon Buxton · Rating 4 out of 5]

B. fiction, YA, historical fiction, early 1900s, orphans

[Elo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5
It's the 3rd Kathleen Karr book I read and i yet have to be disappointed ;)