The breaker boys

By Hughes, Pat

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Family life, fiction, Immigrants, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Coal miners, Fiction, Children's fiction, Coal mines and mining, History, Labor movement, Stepfamilies

Description: In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disasterous clash between mine workers and the law.