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Alcott, Kate. Malerich, C. S. McCully, Emily Arnold. Paterson, Katherine. Sankovitch, NinaAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCMalerich, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom Book 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALSankovitch, Nina
Summary: "The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SANMcCully, 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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PATSummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011