I found this book as I was walking to the check-out desk at the library. The old picture of these girls caught my eye, so I decided to take it home with me. I loved it! It is filled with the most amazing pictures taken of factories and the people, including children that worked there in the early 1900's. What an eye-opener! What hard lives they had! Working long, horrible hours, doing repetitive work, over and over. They had very little rights at all. Their pay could be withheld if they didn't meet their quota for the day, or if the boss just decided to NOT pay them that day. It is a book written in an interesting way: fiction and non-fiction, all in one book. A fictional story goes throughout the book, and in between those chapters, she has put facts and photographs about the time period. It was a great read; probably suitable for upper grade levels and older, but younger kids will learn a lot from how other kids lived at that time.
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