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Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas...
2) Crossroads
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Language
English
Description
Cassie Wright, owner of Wright Glassworks, takes in one year old Gwen after a tragic accident and raises her as her own. Jewel Fairbanks enters the lives of Cassie and Gwen. Jewel envies Gwen. Both Jewel and Gwen marry, Jewel marries a shrewd businessman and Gwen a honest hardworking man who works for the company that Jewel's husband owns.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
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Language
English
Description
"C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going on strike in the historical mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure that no one leaves the picket line. For the young women...
Author
Series
Report / 116th Congress 1st session Senate volume 116-118
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Series
Orange County Community of Museums and Galleries booklet volume no. 3
Genealogy and local history volume LH6014
Genealogy and local history volume LH6014
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Description
Robert Haycock interviewed Henry Alva Ellis, aged 82, who lived with his daughter Mrs. Robert Park in Danville, Illinois, on Septembetr 15, 1969. Mr. Ellis told about his employment at the Greentown glass plant. He roomed at the Commercial Hotel, at the corner of Meridian and Grant streets, and traveled home to Gas City on the week-ends to stay with his parents. The Greentown Glass Factory ran 24 hours a day during its ten-year life span, from 1893...
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