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Audiobooks. fiction Historical fiction. Nouvelles. novel Novels. Poetry. Poésie. Romans. Short stories.Resau, Laura.
Summary: A child in Ecuador is sent to be the servant of a rich mestizo family where she is mistreated. She teaches herself to read and write and escapes, but she is lost between two cultures. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RESWiseman, 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"--
Format: text
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 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WISAdler, Susan S.
Summary: When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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Summary: After escaping a slave labor camp, Luka joins an underground resistance in the fight against the Nazis and the Soviets, but he has two overriding goals--reunite with Lida, who was a friend in the labor camp, and make it back to his home in Ukraine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKRDickens, Charles
Summary: Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DICCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DICSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: "Bringing to life the interworkings of a 1906 chocolate factory and one young crusader's passionate vision to see child workers free of factory work, this historical Christian Romance has a lot of heart and soul"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWGreenwood, Barbara
Summary: A blending of the horrific facts of child labor during the early twentieth century with the imaginary story of one underage factory girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREWinthrop, Elizabeth.
Summary: It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At age twelve, Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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Summary: It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINDickens, Charles
Summary: The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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Summary: "It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021