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3) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
4) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In order to save her family's farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties! (Or so says Stink.) But Judy is a righty... and Judy is feeling left out. Tomorrow is Left Handers Day, and Stink and Dad, the southpaws in the Moody family, are celebrating at the pretzel factory. Judy is allowed to come along on one condition: she has to be left-handed the whole entire day. It's on!
6) Metaltown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rules of Metaltown are simple: Work hard, keep your head down, and watch your back. You look out for number one, and no one knows that better than Ty. She's been surviving on the factory line as long as she can remember. But now Ty has Colin. She's no longer alone; it's the two of them against the world. That's something even a town this brutal can't take away from her. Until it does. Lena's future depends on her family's factory, a beast that...
7) Spindle
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When her wages at the spinning mill are cut, Briar Rose buys a spindle from a peddler hoping it will help her earn more money to take care of her siblings.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uncle Flores is the best tailor in the town of Pinbaue in Brazil. He used to make colourful costumes for the carnival, but nowadays he only makes grey uniforms for the factory workers. The houses are covered with dust from the factory, the river water is murky, and everything is drab. Edinho, his nephew, comes by every day after school to help cut and iron the cloth and listen to his uncle's stories. But when the factory tells Uncle Flores they don't...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When hundreds of adorable bunnies make an abandoned factory their new home, they discover treasures like sugar eggs, penny candy, and party hats. But one little bunny isn't interested in any of these discoveries--he just wants carrots"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Chazak Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
"When a group of kids realized that something is going on in the chocolate factory of Motty's father, they didn't dream that this is a mission against missionaries. The story of two chocolate factories in Eretz Yisroel, which turned out to be on the front of a fight against missionaries, which tries to spread their net around the world with the goal to bring down Yidden from the Derech Hatorah. The Suspect is Tommy the Manager of the chocolate factory,...