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Durbin, William

Summary: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DUR

Salazar, Aida

Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAL

Malerich, C. S.

Summary: "C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going on strike in the historical mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom Book 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Wilson, Karma.

Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Wil

Miller, Judith

Summary: When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest over their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault, in this action-packed finale to the bestselling historical series.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Tatlock, Ann.

Summary: The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolionas 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAT

Wilson, Karma.

Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ANI

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.

Summary: Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009

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Murata, Kiyoko

Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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Spencer, Sally.

Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer her partner and closest frind Detective Inspector Colin Beresford threatens to tear the team apart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPE

Donoso, Raquel

Summary: Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kind World Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DON

Green, Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Summary: In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Haddix 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAD

Heywood, Joseph.

Summary: Lute Bapcap, former cowboy, Rough Rider, and beaver trapper becomes Michigan's first civil service game warden handpicked by Theodore Roosevelt, and after his posting he becomes entangled in a bloody labor strike marked by sabotage tactics, such as slaughtered deer, flooded animal dens, poisoned trout streams and well water, and deforestation, all designed by mine owners to deny nature's bounty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M HEY

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HEY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEY

McCully, Emily Arnold.

Summary: 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?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1996

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Paterson, Katherine.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION Paterson

Wasek, A.A.

Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAS

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