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Joe is a country boy who lives a secluded life with his uncle. He had a good friend named Ned, and the two of them often went out to play and explore together and established a deep friendship. However, one day an unfortunate disaster broke Joe's peaceful life. A lightning struck down a large tree close to his uncle's cabin. The tree fell on the cabin, crushed it, and seriously injured his uncle who was in the house to death. Before his death, his uncle told Joe about a blue box, but died before he could finish, leaving an unsolved mystery. As a result, Joe lost his support. With that secret, he walked into society alone and began to seek a life...

Paul's family originally lived a life with no worries about food and clothing, but the unfortunate death of his father put the family in trouble. With a frail mother and a young brother, 14-year-old Paul shouldered the burden of life. He was hard-working, honest, and smart. He initially made some money by selling prize bags, but soon he had competitors. Teddy, the newsboy, also imitated him and started doing business, and adopted unfair competition methods. However, due to uneven distribution, Teddy had a quarrel with his friends Mike and Jim and was forced to withdraw from the competition. However, because Paul was unwilling to cheat with Mike and Jim, he encountered their revenge and was robbed of the basket containing the prize bag, so he had to terminate the prize bag business. This is Paul's initial life experience, and he will face more setbacks in order to survive. How did he defeat them? How did he move towards success step by step?

When Phil's father was alive, he lived a happy life, but everything changed after his father died. One day, Phil's half-brother Jonas hit him with a snowball. Phil fought back, but was unfairly scolded by his stepmother. In order to achieve a despicable purpose, Phil's stepmother, who didn't like him, revealed a secret that his father, who had been deceased for half a year, was not his biological father, which shocked the young Phil. It turns out that he was adopted into this home. His biological father left him in this home when he was 3 years old and never returned. Everything before Phil's eyes changed completely. He no longer wanted to rely on his stepmother to live, and decided to go to New York alone to explore the world. At the age of 16, he got on a train to New York, rushed to a new and unfamiliar world, and began his unusual and exciting career of struggle...

Alger's works have become synonymous with "American spirit" and are still required extracurricular reading for American middle school students, with total sales of more than 200 million copies worldwide. He himself has been praised by several U. S. Presidents as the "Father of American Spirituality" and is ranked alongside Mark Twain as the two writers who have had the most profound influence on the United States today.