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English
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The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey of change and growth from infancy to maturity, as people enter and leave his life and he passes through the stages of his development.
Author
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.
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Language
English
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1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
6) Threads
Author
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.
Author
Series
American girls collection [Samantha] volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century America, Samantha learns a great deal about what it is like for her friend Nellie to be poor and work in a factory.
8) Bearmouth
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Iqbal: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
11) Charcoal boys
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While making a mud house for her hornet egg, a wasp follows a human child thoughout his day as he works in a Brazilian charcoal mine.
12) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily must hold down her job working twelve-hour days in a garment factory in order to keep from starving. A story that includes historical interludes about the working conditions in factories at the turn of the century.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets. Through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
David Copperfield suffers from his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls in love with Dora, as he fights to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood.
17) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision, will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
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