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Author
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Written in the form of an autobiography, it tells the story of David Copperfield, growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and affairs of the heart--his success as an artist arising out of his sufferings and out of the lessons he derived from life.
A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Author
Lexile measure
810L
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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, and through the danger of the guerrilla 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.
8) How to bee
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future Australia, where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine -- and bees must be ten -- Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. Life on the farm is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Iqbal
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
vi, 120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation. Bravely, he speaks out against children working long hours in carpet factories in Pakistan. Acclaimed author Francesco D'Adamo is internationally famous for his captivating adult fiction. Iqbal is D'Adamo's first young adult book to be published in the United States. Moore's sensational narration complements this remarkable story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A moving, fictionalized account of a march that raised awareness about child labor. Eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie have joined the picket line at the cotton mill to demand the chance to go to school instead of work. But when famous labor reformer Mother Jones arrives, she has an even bolder idea than a strike. She wants to lead them on a march from Pennsylvania all the way to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, New...
12) A single stone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Every girl dreams of being part of the line--the chosen seven who tunnel deep into the mountain to find the harvest. No work is more important. Jena is the leader of the line--strong, respected, reliable. And--as all girls must be--she is small; her years of training have seen to that. It is not always easy but it is the way of things. And so a girl must wrap her limbs, lie still, deny herself a second bowl of stew. Or a first. But what happens when...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
15) Charcoal boys
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Elsewhere edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
While making a mud house for her hornet egg, a wasp follows a human child throughout his day as he works in a Brazilian charcoal mine.
16) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, Bridie leads the match...
19) Factory girl
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.