Factory girl

Title
Factory girl

Personal Author EPSB
Barbara, Greenwood

Summary
Fiction based on the real-life plight of working children in North American cities in the early 1900s. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more.

Year Published
2007

Physical Description
136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note
Includes index.

Reading Grade level
6.1.

Age Interest level
Gr. 5-8

Grade Interest level
All Juvenile

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 5.2 4.0 113852
 
7.0

Subject
Factory system -- History -- 20th century.
 
Child labor -- History -- 20th Century.
 
Child welfare -- History -- 20th century.
 
Child labor -- Fiction
 
Historical fiction
 
Child labor -- Fiction.
 
Factory system -- Fiction.
 
Factories -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
Canada -- Social Conditions -- 1867-1918.

Summary
Fiction based on the real-life plight of working children in North American cities in the early 1900s. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more.

ISBN
9781553376484
 
9781553376491

Publisher
Toronto : Kids Can Press, c2007.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Mount PleasantFIC GRE (OVERSIZED)Book30152000122823Fiction