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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.
ISBN:
9781553376484

9781553376491
Publisher:
Toronto : Kids Can Press, c2007.
Edmonton Public Schools