If you've heard of the newsies, then you've heard about my compadres. I am Audria, the only female newsie. My fellow newsies don't know that though. To them I am little Ruff well Ruffian, the hard working, early rising, boy. Lemme tell ya from first-hand expedience, being a newsie is hard, but being a girl newsie, living with boys who think she is a boy is a million times harder.