Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
10 best books like Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (Russell Freedman): Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, The Bridge Home, Purge, Thirteenth Night, Through My Eyes, Pictures of Hollis Woods, My Mother the Cheerleader, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, Counting on Grace
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
| Author | Rey Terciero |
| ISBN | 0316522864 |
Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...
| Author | Padma Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 1524738115 |
When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim. Life on the streets of the teeming city of Chennai is harsh for girls considered outcasts, but the sisters...
| Author | Sarah Darer Littman |
| ISBN | 0545052351 |
From acclaimed author Sarah Darer Littman, a striking story about a girl's recovery from bulimia in the tradition of CUT, PERFECT, and GIRL INTERRUPTED.
Janie Ryman hates throwing up. So why does she binge eat and then stick her fingers down her throat several times a day? That’s what the...
| Author | Alan Gordon |
| ISBN | 0312200358 |
In 13th-century Europe, a secret organization--The Fool's Guild--existed to influence events behind the scene, and one such manipulation was recorded by Shakespeare, in altered form, in his play, Twelfth Night. But now, many years later, the Duke of Orsino is murdered. Feste, a jester with The Fool's...
| Author | Ruby Bridges |
| ISBN | 0590189239 |
I had to read this book for school and it is about Ruby Bridges as a child written by Ruby Bridges.
Now surprisingly I somewhat enjoyed this book! I thought that Ruby was such a cool little girl and that she is pretty awesome! Some things I didn't like is the swearing(bad words) and I now this is such an...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0439692393 |
When I finished reading this book I actually gave a little yell of happiness. I knew there was a good reason why I wanted to re-read this book. I had read it a couple years back and wanted to know for sure why I had liked it so much the first time around.
The book touches on what is most important in life...
| Author | Robert Sharenow |
| ISBN | 0061148962 |
Louise Collins was pretty certain that nothing all that exciting would happen in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she lived with her mother in their boarding house, Rooms on Desire. Every day was almost the same: serve cranky Mr. Landroux his meals in bed, visit Antoine's Pick-a-Chick with Charlotte,...
| Author | Chris Crowe |
| ISBN | 0803728042 |
The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white...
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames. The factory was crowded. The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside. One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed...
| Author | Marisa Silver |
| ISBN | 0399160701 |
*An NPR Best Book of 2013*
*A BBC Best Book of 2013*
In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328530825 |
Olive and Willow are happy campers!
Or are they?
Olive is sure she’ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow – but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows – Olive. It’s...
