" the newsboys' strike of 1899 was a u.s. youth-led campaign to force change in the way that joseph pulitzer and william randolph hearst's newspapers compensated their child labor force of newspaper hawkers. the strike lasted two weeks, causing pulitzer's new york world to decrease its circulation from 360,000 to 125,000. the strike was successful in increasing the amount of money that newsboys received for their work. "

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HAWKER

/ˈhôkər/

a person who travels around selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting.

July 1899

Kacey DeWitt has been hiding her identity for the past four years as a newsboy. Running from a past she's escaped and trying to find solace in her new life has not been easy and a rebellion certainly does not make it easier. Life catches up to her with emotions she's never faced before.

A long-lost relative is part of her life again and she's falling for a boy when she believes she shouldn't.

The ragtag army of Manhattan Newsies is thrown into a world of chaos and uncertainty as new recruits David and Les Jacobs are thrown into the thick of it with them. Leader Jack Kelly is determined to see this army to victory.

Join Kacey, Jack Kelly, David and the Manhattan Newsies as they face the media's biggest tycoons and rebel against the world.

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