Book 2007

Factory Girl

5 readers

Publisher: Kids Can Press
Language: English
Published: 2007

Juvenile History
Juvenile Nonfiction
Girls & Women
History - Modern
Child labor
Clothing trade
Factories
Fiction

From the author of "The Last Safe House" comes a gripping novel that depicts the life of working children in North American cities in the early 20th century. Interwoven with it are nonfiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, and the plight of working children then and now. Photos.