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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home where kidnappers left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1977]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
11) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
12) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.
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