Based on the hit broadway musical NEWSIES. The infamous Delancey brothers were more than brass knuckles and cold eyes. There was a story behind every scar and bitter word spoken. Nobody ever cared enough to find out their story, until now. It's a story of love and hate, good and evil, and about the struggle between who they are and who they want to be.

(By Spot Girl) An Excerpt: Winter, 1894. A small boy scurries along the sidewalk. His hair is the color of the mud his work boots splatter on the pavement. It snowed last night, but the cool white blanket that settled over the city has already turned an unapealing shade of beige. Welcome to New York. The boy tips his weathered cap to a well dressed lady as she passes by him. What a kid. He's barely a day over twelve, but he's already a real charmer. His name's Jack Kelly.

Morris doesn't want to be the bad guy who beats up the newsies. In fact, he secretly wishes to be a newsie. Only two people know this. His brother, Oscar, and his best friend, Katherine Plumber. Yes. Katherine Plumber. Katherine and Morris have been friends forever, but Morris has always felt different around Katherine. Morris Delancey was in love with her and thought that maybe she felt the same. But when Katherine meets the leader of the Manhattan newsies, Jack Kelly, things change and Morris is left behind. Broken.

In 1899, the streets of New York echoed with the voices of newsies. This is the story of a newsie girl named Archer and her place in the strike against Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.

When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful. (Written by Kaitlin Dwyer Rankins) Jack and David were the main characters, but they could not do it without Spot Conlon. Little is known about the King of Brooklyn, but as a character based on a boy who actually lived, he must have had dreams and ambitions just like fictional Jack and David. Here are my writings in a small attempt to give Spot Conlon the story--and the ending--he deserves.

All Lissy knew in her life was her loving family, but all of that changed one day in a tragic fire. She soon joins the Newsies undercover as a boy , but what happens if they find out her secret? Fall in love with her? Or what if her "dead brother" is back? Find out ... The amazing cover was made by lanabeauchamp :)