factories

After her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.

Train noises without trains and mysterious explosions baffle the residents of South Wiggot as eleven-year-old Bryan and his friend Spot try to connect the strange happenings with the town's newest industry and its president, Mr. Keen.

Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.

Gino would rather sculpt mice out of dough than sweep the floor in his family's pasta factory, but when the factory falls on hard times, Gino's mice save the day.

A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.

Answers questions about fire trucks, including where fire trucks come from, how they are made, how they work, and who gets to drive them.

Photographs, illustrations, and simple text introduce young readers to how cars are designed and built, how they are tested, and how all the parts of a car are put together.

Bernie's attempt to marry off his sister Delores results in mystery and near-disaster at the Bessledorf Parachute Factory.

Traces the development of manufacturing in Europe from the simple process of making axes in ancient times to the sophisticated factories that exist today.

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.