Download or read book Bowery Girl written by Kim Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.