Lost in the Empire City

When Santo’s father left their tiny town in Italy for Amer­i­ca, he made San­to promise to keep their fam­i­ly togeth­er until he has enough mon­ey to bring the rest of them to the US.

It takes a few years, but Mama final­ly gets word that their fam­i­ly can join Papa. San­to couldn’t be more excit­ed to go to Amer­i­ca — and to see his father again. How­ev­er, San­to gets sep­a­rat­ed from his moth­er and sib­lings at Ellis Island, and he is left to fend for him­self on the mean streets of Man­hat­tan. San­to doesn’t speak Eng­lish, he doesn’t know any­one, and he has nowhere to go. He has no mon­ey and no help.

While search­ing des­per­ate­ly for a clue as to where his fam­i­ly has gone, San­to gets caught up with a gang of boys who steal to stay alive. But when an unex­pect­ed betray­al leaves San­to scram­bling, it will take all the street smarts he’s gained to find a way back to his family.