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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.