Children During the Industrialization Era: At Work and Play

Fiction and Nonfiction Books

Fiction Books

  • In Coal Country, by Judith Hendershot, Scholastic Inc,. New York: 1987.
  • The Breaker Boys, by Pat Hughes, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York: 2004.
  • Lyddie, by Katherine Peterson, Puffin Books, New York: 1991.
  • Counting on Grace, by Elizabeth Winthrop, Yearling Book, New York: 2006.
  • Dear Mr. President:  Letters from a Mill Town Girl, by Elizabeth Winthrop, WInslow Press, 2001.

Nonfiction Books

  • Kids on Strike!, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1999.
  • Kids at Work:  Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books, New York: 1994.
  • Immigrant Kids, by Russel Freedman, Puffin Books, 1995.
  • Factory Girl, by Barbara Greenwood, Kids Can Press, 2007.