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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition
Description
Tells the story of the 1909 coal mine disaster in Cherry, Illinois, that killed hundreds of men, left more than four hundred children fatherless, inspired the first worker's compensation laws, and helped bring about changes in child labor practices
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Discusses what life was like for the boys who worked in America's coal mines in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and shares the story of a young coal miner who endeavors to save miners trapped in a collapsed tunnel.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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