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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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RES

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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIS

Wiseman, 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 WIS

Adler, 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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Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

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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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SKR

Dickens, 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 DIC

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DIC

Sawyer, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAW

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