In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, fiction, grandfathers, theft, people with disabilities, adventure fiction, spanish language, new york (n.y.), history, fiction, action and adventure fiction