child labor

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.

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.

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.

After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.

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 a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known. Peony is taken to the city to work for a wealthy family. Will Peony's grit and quick thinking be enough to keep her safe?.

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.

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.

Discusses the advantages of working and offers tips on assessing your talents and abilities, finding a job, acting responsibly, handling disasters, and setting prices.

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove working American children to strike in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discussing such events as the mill workers' strike in 1834; the coal strikes in 1897, 1900, and 1902; and Mother Jones's 125-mile "Children's Crusade" march in 1903.