Showing posts with label Factory workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Factory workers. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2025

Stitched Up by Steve Cole

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Hanh is sold by her parents to two strangers who offer her a good job as a shop assistant in distant Hanoi. She and other girls from her vil...
Monday, December 25, 2023

The Fortune Maker by Catherine Norton

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"It meant living in the cheapest room in Silvertown, in a house on Pilchard Street at the very end of a terrace that tilted towards a l...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll illustrated by Lauren Child

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  Bridie Sweeney wants to tell you a better story, a more truthful story, a less tragic story about the real little match girl. The year is ...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

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Publisher blurb:  1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mo...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Ghostcloud by Michael Mann

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The evil Tabatha Margate rules the Battersea power station using a mixture of fear, severe punishments and frightening threats. Hundreds of ...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Sir Tony Robinson's Worst Children's jobs in History illustrated by Mike Phillips

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If you follow this blog you will know I rarely talk about non fiction.  Taking this one step further if I AM talking about a non fiction tit...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Midnight is a place by Joan Aiken

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“ So how you can you teach people not to worry?’ ‘You ask some large size questions’ .. ‘You can do it in two ways. … Either you make their ...