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    Stolen Dreams
      This collection of photographic essays on child labor around the world explores the physical and political conditions, the economic and health effects, and what can be done to reduce it. The author/photographer includes a list of questions, a bibliograph
      Author: Parker, David HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Working Children
      The author presents the history of child labor in America in four chapters, written with two easy-to-read paragraphs per page , and illustrated with archival black-and-white photogaphs. What distinguishes this book for use in a classroom is the back matt
      Author: Saller, Carol HSE Descriptors: social studies

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    Boy of the Deeps
      On his first day in the coal mines, a boy with his father survive an accident.
      Author: Wallace, Ian HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Cheap Raw Material: How Our Youngest Workers Are Exploited and Abused
      This book is a chronological nonfiction account of children as laborers. Child labor in the U.S. is the focus, but historical background (e.g., Rome, England) is also provided. This history is chronicled through quotations from primary sources, stories
      Author: Meltzer, Milton HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Chimney Sweeps
      From the 12th century to today, here is a look at the folklore and history surrounding the chimney sweep.
      Author: Giblin, James Cross HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Growing Up in Coal Country
      Based on primary documents and oral histories, this book tells the stories of life in the coal mines in eastern Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century.
      Author: Bartoletti, Susan HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Immigrant Kids
      In this unique book, noted nonfiction writer Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America in the early 1900s.
      Author: Freedman, Russell HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
      This book tells the story of Lewis Hine, a teacher and photographer who became so concerned about children working in factories that he became an investigative reporter for the National Child Labor Committee in the early 20th century. The pictures he too
      Author: Freedman, Russell HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Marven of the Great North Woods
      Marven's immigrant Russian Jewish family sends him alone by train and by ski to a logging camp in Minnesota to escape the diphtheria epidemic in the city of Duluth. He finds a niche for himself in very different cultural surroundings through the friendsh
      Author: Lasky, Kathryn

    Stolen Dreams
      This collection of photographic essays on child labor around the world explores the physical and political conditions, the economic and health effects, and what can be done to reduce it. The author/photographer includes a list of questions, a bibliograph
      Author: Parker, David HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
      An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
      Author: Hopkinson, Deborah HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
      An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
      Author: Hopkinson, Deborah HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Voices from the Fields
      Photographs, poems, and interviews capture glimpses of life for today's migrant children.
      Author: Atkin, S. Beth HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Waiting for the Owl's Call
      This narrative is rich in beautiful language - similes, personifications that describes the daily lives of Afghanistani children who work at rug looms looms using ancient patterns handed down from their ancestors. The narrator mentally creates new patter
      Author: Whelan, Gloria HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Waiting for the Owl's Call
      This narrative is rich in beautiful language - similes, personifications that describes the daily lives of Afghanistani children who work at rug looms looms using ancient patterns handed down from their ancestors. The narrator mentally creates new patter
      Author: Whelan, Gloria HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Working Children
      The author presents the history of child labor in America in four chapters, written with two easy-to-read paragraphs per page , and illustrated with archival black-and-white photogaphs. What distinguishes this book for use in a classroom is the back matt
      Author: Saller, Carol HSE Descriptors: social studies


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