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As Sheron Webster by BookPages said, "The novel opens with 13-year-old newsboy Maks Geless struggling to hawk The World amid the sordid streets of the Lower East Side." The story takes place in 1893 and the time period is known for the unstable economy and the abundance of immigrants, were people will do anything for a couple cents. One day he was getting robbed but, he meets a girl named Willia who saves him.