Book 2004

The Breaker Boys

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2004

Stepfamilies
Immigrants
Fathers and sons
Fiction
Labor movement
Coal mines and mining
Coal miners
History

In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disasterous clash between mine workers and the law.