It's 1893 Rose Miller is alone in the world with no one no family, no friends. Charles has no one and has a bum leg because of polio. He can't move his right leg up to his knee. They are both 9 years old, alone until the find each other.
Rose was crying in an alleyway a boy around her age came to her "Are youse ok" the boy said. He was walking with a crutch. She was very annoyed, not at the boy but in general "Ise just got kicked out by my family and Ise have nowhere to go and no money so no Ise not ok" Rose replied. He came closer to her.
"Ise in the same boat as youse are." Now Rose felt awful for snapping at him.
"Ise sorry for snapping at youse earlier."
"It's ok goily. Heys youse has a name."
"Rose"
"Charles but youse can calls me Charlie"
"Ok"
"Want to join me to find work and a place to sleep"
"Sure"

"So youse two needs work and a place to crash." The boy said. He said his name was Jack Kelly the leader of the Manhattan newsies. "Become newsies and you can stay in the lodging house for the newsies for 20 cents a week. How about that" Rose and Charlie look at each other and nod then looks at Jack and nod again. "Welcome to the newsies of Manhattan. Now you two needs nicknames.Whats your name kid." He looks at Charlie "Charles but people call me Charlie." He looks at Charlie and thinks of his nickname. "Crutchie, because of your crutch." Charlie smiles a bit and nods in acceptance. "Now onto you" Jack motions to Rose " What's your name goily."
"Rose" he thinks for a few minutes.
"I can't think of one for you but it's ok some of us don't for example Ise don't have a nickname and Rose is an interesting name so you can keep it."
"Now get to selling." Jack says " Here is 20 cents for each of you" he gives them the money "go buy some papes and get to selling." They sell next to each other Jack said to stretch the truth to sell more and that's what we did.
Once we finish selling we go find Jack and he shows us to the newsies lodging house. "There are no more free beds" Jack says "Guess you can sleep with me in my penthouse." What he means by 'penthouse' he means the roof of the lodge. They get blankets and a pillow and goes up by the fire escape. Charlie has a hard time going up the ladder Rose grabs his blankets, his pillow, and his crutch while Jack tries to help him up. It's hard though because every time you touched him he would tense up and not move.
After they all get to the roof the two younger kids gets their beds set. "Tomorrow Ise will introduce you to the other newsies by the way Ise 11 if you wanted to know" Jack says. "Ise 9" Charlie and Rose say at the same time. We giggle and smile at each other. They think they will like it here.