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The Bobbin Girl
By McCully, Emily Arnold
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80371-827-2
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1996.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1996
Gr 2-4 This tale of child labor, early efforts to organize against unfair employers, and human courage is based on the true story of Harriet Hanson Robinson, whose mother ran a mill boardinghouse in 19th-century Lowell, MA. It tells of Rebecca Putney, a 10-year-old bobbin girl who follows the lead of an older firebrand and walks out of the textile mill in protest of a pay cut. The house provides the context to move the plot because it's there th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
