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English
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" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."
Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life...
2) Coal River
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English
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"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 back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away...
4) Threads
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Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
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English
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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, changing her life forever.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive.
It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure . ....
10) A single stone
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain. Jena, strong, respected, reliable, is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers as one of the chosen seven, Jena's years spent denying herself food and wrapping her limbs have paid off. She is small enough to squeeze through the tunnels of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
12) Bearmouth
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Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Having lived and worked in Bearmouth mine since age four, Newt accepts everything about the brutal life until mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask why, leading Newt and other miners to challenge the system.
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