The bobbin girl /
Emily Arnold McCully.

Description

Main Author

McCully, Emily Arnold.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1996.

Edition

1st ed.

Subjects

Friends of the Frances Willson Thompson Library.
Child labor > Child labor / Juvenile fiction.
Strikes and lockouts > Strikes and lockouts / Textile workers > Strikes and lockouts / Textile workers / Juvenile fiction.
Textile workers > Textile workers / Juvenile fiction.
Lowell (Mass.) > Lowell (Mass.) / Juvenile fiction.

Summary

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?

Physical Description

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm

ISBN

0803718284
0803718276

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