Jazzer Higgins is Racetrack's long lost twin sister who has just made her way to Manhattan after escaping the girls version of the Refuge. She is glad to find her brother, and make new friends as a newsie. When the newsies start a strike, they need the help of all the newsies in New York. When nobody wants to go to Brooklyn, Jazzer offers, but Racetrack tries to keep her from going. She persuades him to let her go, and she meets Spot Conlon for the first time. At first she doesn't like him. in fact, she hates him, but he seems attracted to her. She begins to fall for him, but will they hae these feelings forever? Fate is the deciding factor.