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Bread and roses, too
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Katherine Paterson |
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. |
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Senderos fronterizos
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Francisco Jimenez |
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education. |
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Revolt at Ratcliffe's rags
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Gillian Cross |
The study of working conditions that Susan, Chris, and Abigail conduct at a small factory in their English town leads to a strike with the three students caught between the workers and the owner. |
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Gilded delirium
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Jordan Stokes |
Having gone back in time to tumultuous1894 Chicago, Mindy and Jasper search the city for Mindy's archrival Veronica but find themselves pursued at every turn by sinister agents of the Pinkerton Detec… |
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Boys without names
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Kashmira Sheth |
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai… |
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Fearless
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Tim Lott |
Behind the walls of the smartly painted City Community Faith School, one thousand girls are forced to labour in the city's laundry' separated from their families and deprived of their freedom - One o… |
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A Long Time Coming
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Phyllis A. Whitney |
Vacationing in a small midwestern town, eighteen-year-old Christie is drawn into the conflict between the townspeople and Mexican American migrant workers employed by her father's company. |
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