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Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Grace does her best working at the mill to bring in more money for her family, and when Grace writes a letter to the Child Labor Board describing the conditions, things change when a reporter shows up to get the story.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Description
After escaping a slave labor camp, Luka joins an underground resistance in the fight against the Nazis and the Soviets, but he has two overriding goals--reunite with Lida, who was a friend in the labor camp, and make it back to his home in Ukraine.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"A documentary driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines--just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays. The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children's garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in factory dorms and spend their days sewing clothes. In a remarkably intimate documentary filmed over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Wang Bing...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book! Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the right to freedom and education in this inspirational nonfiction picture book from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeanette Winter. One country: Pakistan. Two children: Iqbal Masih and Malala Yousafzai. Each was unafraid to speak out. He, against inhumane child slavery in the carpet trade. She, for the right of girls to attend school. Both were...
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