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23) A room of my own
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
26) Fire in the Hole
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A novel on the Colorado coal strike early this century and its brutal suppression by the Colorado militia. The events are portrayed through the eyes of a woman lawyer defending a miner accused of inciting a riot. The strike led to the Ludlow Massacre in which some 20 men, women and children were killed by the militia.
27) Chairs on Strike
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Teaches kindness to all people and things. A hilarious, rhyming, read loud book that's perfect for the first or any day of school.
The classroom chairs have had enough!
You know, sitting’s not the only thing
That happens in our seats.
Sometimes, a kid sits pretzel-style,
And we have to smell their feet!
28) Full time
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
31) Viva's voice
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice." --publisher's website.
32) The bobbin girl
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Formats
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
35) High five Hank
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
When the school demands that Hank, the crosswalk guard, stop giving "high fives" to the children, they decide to put into action "Operation High Five."
36) Glues on strike
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
We aired our complaints and wrote a letter just to be clear. We had some grievances for the students to hear.
Author
Pub. Date
©1989
Description
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.