Wiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: "An historical novel that explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman 2020Wiseman, Ellen Marie.
Summary: "In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015