Paterson, Katherine.

Bread and roses, too / Katherine Paterson. - New York : Clarion Books, c2006. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2007 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, September 2006 Book Links (A.L.A.), November 2006 Booklist starred, August 2006 Horn Book Starred, April 2007 Kirkus Starred, August 2006 New York Times, September 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), March 2007

Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

4.9 5-8 Follett Library Resources

0618654798

2005031702


Strikes--Textile workers--Fiction.
Labor unions--Fiction.
Survival skills--Fiction.
Textile workers--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Immigration and emigration--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Lawrence (Mass.)--History--Fiction.

PZ7.P273 / Bq 2006

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