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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stonger than its individual members and more frightening. led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the "courage never to submit or yield."
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Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 3
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Description
When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest over their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault, in this action-packed finale to the bestselling historical series.
4) Germinal
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Series
Description
In Zola's masterpiece of naturalistic fiction, a young idealist instigates a strike in a 19th-century mining community, setting the stage for a brutal clash between labor and capital.
6) Uprising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Teaches kindness to all people and things. A hilarious, rhyming, read loud book that's perfect for the first or any day of school.
The classroom chairs have had enough!
You know, sitting’s not the only thing
That happens in our seats.
Sometimes, a kid sits pretzel-style,
And we have to smell their feet!
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A novel on the Colorado coal strike early this century and its brutal suppression by the Colorado militia. The events are portrayed through the eyes of a woman lawyer defending a miner accused of inciting a riot. The strike led to the Ludlow Massacre in which some 20 men, women and children were killed by the militia.
11) Frankie
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
During the unrest created by the coal strike in Colorado in 1913-1914, Luke faces questions about this local happening while also dealing with his feelings toward a mysterious runaway.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Las vacas del granjero Brown descubren una máquina de escribir en su establo y empiezan a hacer ultimatumes. Cuando el granjero no responde, los animales van en huelga.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
19) Treetop trauma
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Slam Duncan and his mountain biking Chain Gang stage a hunger strike to save their racing hill from developers, hoping their appetite for biking will outweigh their appetite for cheeseburgers and French fries.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.