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Child labor Fiction Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction Germany History 1933-1945 Juvenile fiction Large type books Miners Fiction Orphans Fiction Slave labor Germany Juvenile fiction Ukrainians Germany Fiction Ukrainians Germany Juvenile fiction World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from Ukraine Juvenile fictionResau, 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"--
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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 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
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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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
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.
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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
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014