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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 RESGreenwood, 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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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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006