The story about the amazing friendship between the heir to a millionaire family and a simple shoe shiner was written by the American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Martha Livingston-Moody. The two American boys lived completely different lives. It would seem that the capricious and spoiled Reginald, born among luxury and surrounded by the excessive care of his mother, was supposed to turn over time into a soulless and arrogant rich man. And Jim, who from an early age had to earn his bread with his labor, was not destined to escape poverty until the end of his life... However, fate was willing to lay the foundation for an extraordinary friendship between such dissimilar children - and radically change their lives and characters... For middle school age.