Factory Girl

Barbara Greenwood

Twelve-year-old Emily must hold down her job working twelve-hour days in a garment factory in order to keep from starving. Gr. 4 - 7.

The Day it Rained Forever: The Story of the Johnstown Flood

Virginia T. Gross

Christina Berwind and her family live in Johnstown. When the rains came, the dam that held Lake Conemaugh burst, unleashing a wall of water 125 feet high and rushing down the narrow valley at 50 miles an hour toward the town. Gr. 3 - 5.

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Bread and Roses, Too

Katherine Paterson

Jake and Rosa form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Gr. 4 - 7.