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English
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David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it
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Schwartz & Wade
Publication Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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English
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The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she led one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
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English
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Can true love die? Or, neglected, does it lie dormant until the object of true desire is again within reach? Denied, does passion smolder? Learn the answer and revel in the action, drama, intrigue, and passion as the Frobishers -- with help from Wolverstone, the Cynsters, and many familiar others -- steer the Adventurers Quartet to a glorious end.
Widely known as the lord of the privateers, Royd Frobisher expects to execute the final stage of the...
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English
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Captain Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic youngest son of a seafaring dynasty, wants to be taken seriously. Seizing the next leg of the covert mission his brothers are pursuing, he acts decisively and effectively in securing the mission's objectives. But responsibility has taken root, and he remains in the jungle to ensure the mission's ultimate goal. Katherine Fortescue fled a life of poverty and came to Freetown as a governess, only to be kidnapped and...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Publication Date
2017.
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327 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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During the Civil War, twelve-year-old Dillon Childs's father joins the Confederacy and asks Reverend Jeremiah Culpepper to take Dillon and his six-year-old sister, Jenny, to St. Louis to live with their uncle. The uncle has also joined the Confederacy, leaving the two children alone and destitute in the huge city, where orphaned and abandoned children roam the streets. Dillon, scared for his little sister and what could happen to her, comes to the...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
[2016]
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pages
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English
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In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Publication Date
[2025]
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x, 170 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them. While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In Slavery After Slavery, historian Mary Frances...
8) Coal river
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Kensington
Publication Date
2015.
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339 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"An historical novel that explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pleasant Co
Publication Date
c1986
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61 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
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Publisher
Scholastic
Publication Date
c1998
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95 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Karen really wants Moonbeam, the new video game system. But Daddy won't buy it for her. So Karen decides to get a job. She will help Kristy deliver newspapers. It is hard work. Karen has to get up very early in the morning! And some people are pretty picky about how their papers are delivered. Can Karen earn the money she needs?
11) Echoes of mercy
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2014
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English
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"Bringing to life the interworkings of a 1906 chocolate factory and one young crusader's passionate vision to see child workers free of factory work, this historical Christian Romance has a lot of heart and soul"-- Provided by publisher.
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Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2023.
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198 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"It only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child. Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune,...
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Distributed by Goldhil]
Publication Date
c2003
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1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Seeking to find a remedy for the situation of child laborers, Charles Dickens is dogged by financial insecurity and self-pity. He meets a young girl whose life mirrors his painful childhood and through her is inspired to discover the healing power of a simple act of charity.
15) Threads
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Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Publication Date
[2016]
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pages cm
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English
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An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date
2016.
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299 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"-- Provided by publisher.
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao...